Ernest Hemingway is probably the best twentieth century novelist we have had. But at the same time, he was also one of the gloomiest human being throughout his life, who kept on exploring and travelling and never settling down at one place. Ernest Hemingway quotes will speak about about love, life, happiness, pain and everything in between. Ernest Hemingway quotes, even after almost a century make sense.
44 Inspirational Ernest Hemingway Quotes
- “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway
2. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
3. “Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.” – Ernest Hemingway
4. “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” – Ernest Hemingway
5. “Only the people who are prepared to go too far can possibly know how far they can go.” – Ernest Hemingway
6. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
7. “I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” – Ernest Hemingway
8. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway
9. “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.” – Ernest Hemingway
10. “The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” – Ernest Hemingway
11. “If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.” – Ernest Hemingway
12. “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
13. “I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.” – Ernest Hemingway
14. “There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.” – Ernest Hemingway
15. “You’re beautiful, like a May fly.” – Ernest Hemingway
16. “I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I am awake.” – Ernest Hemingway
17. “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” – Ernest Hemingway
18. “When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.” – Ernest Hemingway
19. “No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.” – Ernest Hemingway
20. “You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering.” – Ernest Hemingway
21. “Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.” – Ernest Hemingway
22. “That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.” – Ernest Hemingway
23. “To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.” – Ernest Hemingway
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24. “Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind.” – Ernest Hemingway
25. “Never confuse movement with action.” – Ernest Hemingway
26. “For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” – Ernest Hemingway
27. “I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.” – Ernest Hemingway
28. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway
29. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway
30. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
31. “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” – Ernest Hemingway
32. “I drink to make other people interesting.” – Ernest Hemingway
33. “Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.” – Ernest Hemingway
34. “All things truly wicked start from innocence.” – Ernest Hemingway
35. “Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.” – Ernest Hemingway
36. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
37. “Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.” – Ernest Hemingway
38. “The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.” – Ernest Hemingway
39. “The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
40. “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” – Ernest Hemingway
41. “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” – Ernest Hemingway
42. “There is nothing to writing. All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and BLEED.” – Ernest Hemingway
43. “All our words from loose using have lost their edge.” – Ernest Hemingway
44. “All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.” – Ernest Hemingway
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