Ernest Hemingway: Quotes about love

Ernest Hemingway was American author and journalist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too”

Ernest Hemingway book Men Without Women

Disputed <br class="br">Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.

“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.”

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

No source in Hemingway&#x27;s works has been found. May have originated in a 2000 post to the Usenet group alt.support.depression. link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.support.depression/wYH4aCNHyp4/_d50yuXTeHsJ <br class="br">Disputed

“I am always in love.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

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

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“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.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“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.”

Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11

“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.”

Ernest Hemingway book True at First Light

Source: True at First Light (1999), Ch. 10

“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.”

Ernest Hemingway book Across the River and into the Trees

Colonel Richard Cantwell and Renata in Ch. 38
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)

“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.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

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

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

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

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

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

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

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

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

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

Ernest Hemingway

Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. 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…”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“No one you love is ever truly lost.”

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“You've such a lovely temperature.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms