Life Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

“Lie life through its fullest”

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

“Nobody likes to life anchors.”

— Ernest Hemingway

In order to write about life first you must live it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

— Ernest Hemingway

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

— Ernest Hemingway

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

— Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

— Ernest Hemingway

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

— Ernest Hemingway

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

— Ernest Hemingway

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

— Ernest Hemingway

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

— Ernest Hemingway

“In life, one must (first) last." (“Dans la vie, il faut [d'abord] durer.”)”

— Ernest Hemingway

“He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.”

— Ernest Hemingway

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That…

— Ernest Hemingway

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are…

— Ernest Hemingway

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither…

— Ernest Hemingway

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside…

— Ernest Hemingway

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the…

— Ernest Hemingway

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in…

— Ernest Hemingway

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is…

— Ernest Hemingway

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and…

— Ernest Hemingway

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead…

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That…

— Ernest Hemingway

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their…

— Ernest Hemingway

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring… But Paris was a very old…

— 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

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they…

— Ernest Hemingway

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can…

— Ernest Hemingway

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I have fought for what I believed in for a year now. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you…

— Ernest Hemingway

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting…

— Ernest Hemingway