Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

I am so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

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

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

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.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.

You and me, we've made a separate peace.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

"Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."…"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"