Ernest Hemingway: Quotes about love

Ernest Hemingway was American author and journalist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

“Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”

Ernest Hemingway

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Variant: You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
Source: The Garden of Eden

“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”

Ernest Hemingway

“This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Complete Short Stories

“When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Complete Short Stories

“It’s funny," I said. "It’s very funny. And it’s a lot of fun, too, to be in love."

"Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again.

"I don’t mean fun that way. In a way it’s an enjoyable feeling."

"No," she said. "I think it’s hell on earth.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: Farewell to Arms

“Please love me David the way I am. Please understand and love me.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Catherine in Ch. 1
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)

“I kissed her neck and shoulders. I felt faint with loving her so much.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“Do you always get so hungry when you make love?”
“When you love somebody.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Catherine and David Bourne in Ch. 1
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
Context: But I get so hungry,' she said. 'Is it normal do you think? Do you always get so hungry when you make love?'
'When you love somebody.

“That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises