Quotes from book

A Farewell to Arms

“Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”

“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.”

“All thinking men are atheists.”

“War is not won by victory.”

“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 after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.”

“The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.”

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

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

“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.”

“You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”

“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.”

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

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

“You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.”

“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war."
Defeat is worse."
I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”

“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”

“You're my religion. You're all I've got.”

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