Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Onde iremos viver depois da guerra? - Provavelmente num asilo de velhos - disse ela. - Durante três anos esperei infantilmente que a guerra acabasse no Natal. Mas agora não espero já o fim dela senão para quando o nosso filho for major. ------ Henry e Catherine in O Adeus Às Armas, Ernest Hemingway

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Man is not made for defeat.

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

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

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

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.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

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

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

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

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.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.