Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

What happens to people that love each other?' 'I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever.

I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

It is silly not to hope, he thought. Besides I believe it is a sin.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.

Znam da no? nije isto što i dan:da su stvari razli?ite,da se ono što ?ovjek osje?a no?u,danju ne može objasniti,jer tada to ne postoji,a za osamljene ljude,kad njihova osamljenost jednom uzme maha,no? može biti vrijeme užasa.

The thousand times he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.

I am not religious, he said. But I will say ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys that I should catch this fish, and I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgen de Cobre if I catch him. That is a promise.

I don't think if people gambled for what they could afford it would be very interesting.

All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify their members as failures.

Yes Tatie, and you and Chink always talking about how to make things true, writing them, and put them rightly and not describe. I remember everything. Sometimes he was right and sometimes you were right. I remember the lights and textures and the shapes you argued about.

I was leading, and already I missed not working and I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

for all the poor in the world against all tyranny

Ara went down and Thomas Hudson was alone with the night and the sea and he still rode it like a horse going downhill too fast across broken country.

he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city

Why be puzzled by that? From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

He did not know what made him feel as he did. But

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota; un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

You oughtn't to ever do anything too long.

The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything. Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes.

I learned one thing.' 'What?' 'Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Gondold el: ha volna Isten, soha nem engedte volna azt a sok mindent, amit én láttam, a két szememmel.

You love. And what about that you were talking to me all those nights? That's not love. Those are only passion and lust. When man loves, then he wishes to do something for that. He wants to sacrifice. And you want to serve.

How are you? You old love-house of always.

An ugly face,' he said to the glass. 'Did you ever see a more ugly face?' 'Yes,' said Arnaldo. 'Mine. Every morning when I shave.' 'We both ought to shave in the dark,' the Colonel told him and went out the door.