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Quotes About Relationships

How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If you make jokes with people, you create enemies to yourself.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The heart of another is a dark forest
~ Ernest Hemingway
and Mary with her wonderful memory for forgetting was happy too and without any problems. She could forget in the loveliest and most complete way of anyone I ever knew. She could carry a fight overnight but at the end of week she could forget it completely and truly. She had a built-in selective memory and it was not built entirely in her favor. She forgave herself in her memory and she forgave you too. She was a very strange girl and I loved her very much.
~ 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.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I learned one thing.' 'What?' 'Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But I could never make friends again truly, neither in my heart nor in my head. When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst. But it was more complicated than that.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I've been very happy with women. Desperately happy. Unbearably happy. So happy that I could not believe it; that it was like being drunk or crazy. But never as happy as with my children
~ Ernest Hemingway
Nimeni n-ar trebui s? r?mân? singur când îmb?trâneÈ™te.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Mindenkinek szüksége van arra, hogy nyíltan beszélhessen valakivel – mondta az asszony. – AzelÅ'tt ott volt a vallás meg a többi értelmetlenség, most meg mindenkinek szüksége van valakire, akinek mindent Å'szintén bevallhat, mert különben akármilyen értékes ember, magányossá lesz.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Books should be about the people you know, that you love and hate, not about the people you study up about.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I think I understand, Willie," he said. "Oh shit," Willie said. "You never understand anybody that loves you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But we liked Miss Stein and her friend, although the friend was frightening, and the paintings and the cakes and the eau-devie were truly wonderful. They seemed to like us too and treated us as though we were very good, well-mannered and promising children and I felt that they forgave us for being in love and being married—time would fix that—and when my wife invited them to tea, they accepted.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't want any one else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
So, he said to himself, we did well to stop the quarrelling. He had never quarrelled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved he had quarrelled so much they had finally, always, with the corrosion of the quarrelling, killed what they had together. He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Nunca salgas de viaje con una persona que no amas.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She said that nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I love someone it would take it all away. What
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn--nor as eager. I was enjoying it. It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. Cohn had a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. I had been having Brett for a friend. I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'm going back to Mike." I could feel her crying as I held her close. "He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.
~ Ernest Hemingway
he would carry out the orders and it was bad luck that you liked the people you must do it with.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare…That's rare and valuable.
~ Ernest Hemingway