Ernest Hemingway: Trending quotes (page 3)

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

“Never fall in love?"
"Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”

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

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

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

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

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

“Maybe… you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”

“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

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

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”

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

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

“And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes
And the rain won't make any difference?
No”