Death Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

All thinking men are atheists.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Every true story ends in death.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

— Ernest Hemingway

“pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death”

— Ernest Hemingway

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

— Ernest Hemingway

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

— Ernest Hemingway

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

— Ernest Hemingway

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Is dying hard, Daddy? No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her”

— Ernest Hemingway

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is…

— Ernest Hemingway

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

— Ernest Hemingway

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of…

— Ernest Hemingway

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when…

— Ernest Hemingway

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought. 'It's a bore,' he said out loud. 'What is, my…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He was going to sleep a little while. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another…

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife…

— Ernest Hemingway

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in…

— Ernest Hemingway

The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest…

— Ernest Hemingway

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is…

— Ernest Hemingway

“let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him,…

— Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He was probably a coward,” she said. “He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?' 'Of course. Who said it?' 'I don't know.' 'He was probably a…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He died, as the Spanish phrase has it, full of illusions. He had not had time in his life to lose any…

— Ernest Hemingway

“This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to ignore but to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Thou askest me to take things seriously? After what thou didst last night? When thou needest to kill a man and instead…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He had been contemptuous of those who wrecked. You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

— Ernest Hemingway

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it. ― Ernest Hemingway,…

— Ernest Hemingway

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish…

— Ernest Hemingway

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is…

— Ernest Hemingway