Ernest Hemingway

Novelist American 1899 – 1961

American novelist and Nobel Prize winner for The Old Man and the Sea.

362 quotes

"In your recklessness you will find your glory."
Adventure
"All things are good if you don't do too many of them."
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
"Life is just a dirty four letter word."
Life
"Never be daunted. Never be afraid to go ahead."
Courage
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Truth
"Everybody is a goddamn liar."
Truth
"There's nothing to it. You only have to die."
Death
"I never had to choose a word in my life that came any easier to me."
Creativity
"I think I've been very fortunate in the friends that I have."
Friendship
"The world is full of people giving advice that they themselves don't follow."
Wisdom
"A person with outward courage dares to die; a person with inward courage dares to live."
Courage
"Wars are made by politicians and fought by soldiers."
War
"Never confuse movement with action."
Wisdom
"To be a writer, you have to learn to be alone, and to stay alone."
Solitude
"The good earth is rich, if we know how to use it."
Nature
"About morals, I'm zero. About honor, I'm less than zero."
Philosophy
"When you go out looking for adventures, you come home with a great deal more."
Adventure
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and died that distinguish one man from another."
Death
"Failure and only failure teaches."
Education
"A man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated."
Perseverance
"The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always being so very much fun."
Beauty
"You can't get away from it bad luck follows you."
"Most of the world is asleep. Only a few of us are awake. And we are having the most terrible nightmares."
Wisdom
"Drinking is a way of ending the day."
Life
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
Life
"The Hungarians are very good at fighting. They have been fighting for a thousand years."
History
"The world is unfair."
Justice
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid for their acquiring."
Time
"Managers are separated from the men. That's why they're managers."
Leadership