Ernest Hemingway Quotes

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

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

Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it?

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.

"You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark."

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.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.