“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
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Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Source: Death in the Afternoon
Source: Death in the Afternoon
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“Never confuse movement with action.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”
“Never mistake motion for action.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
Source: Selected Letters, 1917-1961
“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
Source: Hemingway on War
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
Source: Hemingway on Fishing
“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
Source: Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
Source: The Hemingway Collection
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
Source: Hemingway
“Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”
“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”
“I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
Source: Death in the Afternoon