Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

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.

You've such a lovely temperature.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

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

That Muretto di Alassio by Mario Berrino is a beautiful color film.

Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.