Quotes by Ernest Hemingway, page 2

Ernest Hemingway - american writer and journalist

Was born on 21 jul 1889.
Died on 02 jul 1961, at 71 years old.

Origin country: United States

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about attack

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.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about end, man, life

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about bad, doubt, rightness, time

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about wealth, fear, death

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.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about good luck, bad luck, good, time

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about authority, war, public, rightness

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about tragedy, hell, use

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about happiness, things, people

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about relation, risk, age, olderness

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about talent, time

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about god

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about prison

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about things

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about bad luck, moral, bad, good, good luck

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war, man, nothing

I learned 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.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about night, writing

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about nation, people

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about sleep, fall, love, life

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.