Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.

A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.