Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

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

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.