Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"As a writer, you should not judge. You should understand."

- Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

- Ernest Hemingway

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it."

- Ernest Hemingway

"‘But man is not made for defeat,’ he said. ‘A man can be destroyed but not defeated.’"

- Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you are finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."

- Ernest Hemingway

"If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing."

- Ernest Hemingway

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Never confuse movement with action."

- 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

"I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

- 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

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The earth is a fine place and worth fighting for."

- Ernest Hemingway

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

- Ernest Hemingway

"We are stronger in the places we have been broken."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

- Ernest Hemingway

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive, and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?"

- Ernest Hemingway

"Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The old man and the sea is a story about the triumph of the human spirit."

- Ernest Hemingway

"'Tis better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all."

- Ernest Hemingway

"A man is never lost at sea."

- Ernest Hemingway

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

- Ernest Hemingway

"I write one page of masterpiece to 91 pages of $@*#. I try to put the $@*# in the wastebasket."

- Ernest Hemingway

"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."

- Ernest Hemingway

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one becomes a master."

- Ernest Hemingway

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

- Ernest Hemingway

"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest."

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"One cat just leads to another."

- Ernest Hemingway

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

- Ernest Hemingway

"People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

- 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

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"True nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Write hard and clear about what hurts."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Time is the least thing we have of."

- Ernest Hemingway

"You're beautiful, like a May fly."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Never mistake motion for action."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Every day above earth is a good day."

- Ernest Hemingway

"After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now."

- Ernest Hemingway

"We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Write drunk; edit sober."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Live the life of the full mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual."

- Ernest Hemingway

"You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive, and you loved him after."

- Ernest Hemingway

"“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”"

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

- Ernest Hemingway

"It is good to have a journey toward the end, but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

- Ernest Hemingway