Ernest Hemingway: Trending quotes (page 4)

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

“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.”

“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

“Oh, Jake,' Brett said, 'we could have had such a damned good time together.'
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
'Yes,' I said. 'Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”

“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”

“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”