Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Life
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
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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.
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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
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There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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