Top 500 Ernest Hemingway Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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3. “Courage is grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

26. “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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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30. “Write drunk; edit sober.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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38. “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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

41. “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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

43. “Never mistake motion for action.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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49. “Isn’t it pretty to think so.”

— Ernest Hemingway

50. “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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