Ernest Hemingway: Quotes about love

“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.”

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

“I am always in love.”

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

“What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

“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.”

“In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.”

“What happens to people that love each other?'
'I suppose they have whatever they have and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness for ever.”

“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.”

“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”

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

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

“But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.”

“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful…”

“No one you love is ever truly lost.”

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

“You've such a lovely temperature.”