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Top 500 Ernest Hemingway Quotes (2025 Update)

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

1. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Reflection Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

2. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Motivational Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Courage is grace under pressure.”

3. “Courage is grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Courage Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men, Challenges Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

4. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Happiness Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “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. ”

5. “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. ”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Quotes About Writing

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.”

7. “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Quotes About Light

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.”

8. “We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

9. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Truth Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

10. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Quotes About People

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Write hard and clear about what hurts. ”

11. “Write hard and clear about what hurts. ”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Emotional Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Struggle Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

12. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Failure Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Struggle Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

13. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Experience Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”

15. “Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

16. “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”

17. “Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

18. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “In order to write about life first you must live it.”

19. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Experience Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Writing

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.”

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Broken Heart Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Rain Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

21. “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Quality Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”

22. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Mindset Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Quotes About Hope

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.”

23. “I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Love You Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”

24. “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Writing

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times. All of war is that way.”

25. “Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times. All of war is that way.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.”

26. “Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

27. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Peace Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”

28. “Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Quotes About Writing, Humility Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Write drunk; edit sober.”

30. “Write drunk; edit sober.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

31. “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Stay Strong Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

32. “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “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.”

33. “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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Experience Quotes, Culture Quotes, Travel Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

34. “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Honesty Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

35. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Sad Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”

36. “When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Live Life Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Passion Quotes, Joy Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Night is always darkest before the dawn, and life is the same. The hard times will pass; everything will get better and the sun will shine brighter than ever.”

37. “Night is always darkest before the dawn, and life is the same. The hard times will pass; everything will get better and the sun will shine brighter than ever.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Quotes About Night

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”

38. “Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Mind Quotes, Quotes About Ideas, Romance Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

39. “You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Suffering Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “The only kind of writing is rewriting.”

40. “The only kind of writing is rewriting.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Quotes About Writing

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”

41. “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.”

42. “Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Never mistake motion for action.”

43. “Never mistake motion for action.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Witty Quotes, Mistake Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

44. “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Fighting Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Write as well as you can and finish what you start.”

45. “Write as well as you can and finish what you start.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Quotes About Writing

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

46. “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Luck Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.”

47. “To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Hurt Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Life is pain, so live it up while you can.”

48. “Life is pain, so live it up while you can.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Featured in: Pain Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “Isn’t it pretty to think so.”

49. “Isn’t it pretty to think so.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quote: “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”

50. “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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