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Ernest Hemingway Quotes about Life

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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspirational, Life, Couple

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Fun, Bad Ass
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Ernest Hemingway
Funny, Life, Drinking
"How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Happiness, Happy
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Broken, Stronger

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

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Wise, Wisdom
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

In order to write about life first you must live it.

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

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

Ernest Hemingway
Love, Life, Inspiring

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Arms, Nothing To Lose
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.81, Hamilton Books

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Time, Learning
"Death in the Afternoon". Book by Ernest Hemingway, chapter 16, 1932.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Soil, Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Pain, Live It Up

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Travel, Men
A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

Ernest Hemingway
Life
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7290, Simon and Schuster

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Cheating, Writing
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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)

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

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Night, Emotion
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Biblical, Two
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Good Life, Biblical
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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