Ernest Hemingway Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Ernest Hemingway quotes, Ernest Hemingway sayings, and Ernest Hemingway proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. Ernest Hemingway
We are all broken. That's how the light gets in. 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 is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
I drink to make other people more interesting. Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Ernest Hemingway
In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain. Ernest Hemingway
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way. Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Ernest Hemingway
I drink to make other people more interesting. Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway
It is good to have an end to journey toward; But it is the journey that matters, in the end. 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 is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
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
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. Ernest Hemingway
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Ernest Hemingway
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. Ernest Hemingway
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Ernest Hemingway
Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America. Ernest Hemingway
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. Ernest Hemingway
There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris. Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. Ernest Hemingway
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
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have. Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Ernest Hemingway
If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes. Ernest Hemingway
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats. Ernest Hemingway