Ernest Hemingway Quotes about Death

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

Life, Death, Rip

Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

Inspirational, Motivational, Death

"What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet", July 2, 2011.

All thinking men are atheists.

Ernest Hemingway

Inspirational, Death, Atheist

Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.4, Hamilton Books

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

Ernest Hemingway

Death, Suicide, Stories

Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

Death, Country, Sweet

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway

Death, Art, Honor

Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

Inspiring, Death, Hate

For Whom the Bell Tolls ch. 43 (1940)

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

Life, Death, Military

Men at War introduction (1942)

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

Ernest Hemingway

Death, Home, Simple

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.19, Simon and Schuster