Men Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

— Ernest Hemingway

All thinking men are atheists.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

— Ernest Hemingway

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

— Ernest Hemingway

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

— Ernest Hemingway

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

— Ernest Hemingway

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

— Ernest Hemingway

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill…

— Ernest Hemingway

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

— Ernest Hemingway

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

— Ernest Hemingway

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

— Ernest Hemingway

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

— Ernest Hemingway

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men…

— 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

The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching…

— Ernest Hemingway

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the…

— Ernest Hemingway

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered.…

— Ernest Hemingway

Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered.…

— Ernest Hemingway

You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing…

— Ernest Hemingway

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an…

— 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

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they…

— Ernest Hemingway

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's…

— Ernest Hemingway

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up…

— 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

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual…

— 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

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am…

— 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

It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You…

— Ernest Hemingway

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come…

— 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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

— Ernest Hemingway

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

— Ernest Hemingway