Source: The Old Man and the Sea
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Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes
“Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do”
Source: Hemingway on Hunting
“I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
“You'll lose it, if you talk about it”
Source: Sun Also Rises
“My big fish must be somewhere.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“I was blown up while we were eating cheese.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
Source: Hemingway on Hunting
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.”
Source: Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
“It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”
Source: Hemingway's Paris
“Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”
Source: Hemingway on Fishing
“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
Source: Islands in the Stream: A Novel
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.”
“I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.”
Source: Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.”
“All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
Source: To Have and Have Not