The 100 Best Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

1. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
2. “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.”
3. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
4. “In order to write about life, you must first live it.”
5. “Courage is grace under pressure.”
6. “Never confuse movement with action.”
7. “The first draft of anything is crap.”
8. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
9. “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
10. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
11. “The only thing that can save you is yourself. Do not depend on anyone else.”
12. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
13. “Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
14. “Write drunk; edit sober.”
15. “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
16. “I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
17. “There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.”
18. “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.”
19. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
20. “There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.”
21. “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
22. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too.”
23. “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.”
24. “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
25. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
26. “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
27. “The best way to identify any man’s truth is to see what he does rather than what he says.”
28. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
29. “Every day above earth is a good day.”
30. “Never write about a place until you’re away from it, because that gives you perspective.”
31. “All good books have one thing in common: they are truer than if they had really happened.”
32. “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, crap detector.”
33. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.”
34. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
35. “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.”
36. “I know now that there is no one thing that is true—it is all true.”
37. “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
38. “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.”
39. “There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.”
40. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
41. “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.”
42. “When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead.”
43. “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
44. “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.”
45. “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
46. “The first draft of anything is shit.”
47. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
48. “The shortest answer is doing the thing.”
49. “Never mistake motion for action.”
50. “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”