Sea Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

13 Sea quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway’s hallmark economy shines in his oceanic musings. Though limited to thirteen, each sentence cuts like a tide‑driven wind, revealing the raw, unvarnished relationship between man and the relentless sea.

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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

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She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly,…

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It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is…

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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It…

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You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or…

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

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The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.…

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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine…

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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

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