Quotes from book

The Sun Also Rises

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”

“Listen Jake… don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you are not taking advantage of it?”

“I am always in love.”

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”

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

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”

“You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.”

“Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”

“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”

“You'll lose it, if you talk about it”

“You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.”

“The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.”

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

“This is a hell of dull talk… How about some of that champagne?”

“Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.”

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”

“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”