Top 500 Ernest Hemingway Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “There isnt always an explanation for everything.”

— Ernest Hemingway

302. “It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.”

— Ernest Hemingway

303. “A coward dies a thousand times, but a brave man only once.”

— Ernest Hemingway

304. “Dying is a very simple thing. I’ve looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.”

— Ernest Hemingway

305. “The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.”

— Ernest Hemingway

306. “Fascism is a lie told by bullies.”

— Ernest Hemingway

307. “There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.”

— Ernest Hemingway

308. “What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.”

— Ernest Hemingway

309. “I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.”

— Ernest Hemingway

310. “America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.”

— Ernest Hemingway

311. “Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

312. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

— Ernest Hemingway

313. “Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”

— Ernest Hemingway

314. “A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.”

— Ernest Hemingway

315. “A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.”

— Ernest Hemingway

316. “My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.”

— Ernest Hemingway

317. “Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.”

— Ernest Hemingway

318. “I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.”

— Ernest Hemingway

319. “And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

320. “I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.”

— Ernest Hemingway

321. “You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.”

— Ernest Hemingway

322. “When you start to live outside yourself, it’s all dangerous.”

— Ernest Hemingway

323. “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

— Ernest Hemingway

324. “War is not won by victory.”

— Ernest Hemingway

325. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”

— Ernest Hemingway

326. “I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one’s own body.”

— Ernest Hemingway

327. “I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”

— Ernest Hemingway

328. “We have very primative emotions. It’s impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.”

— Ernest Hemingway

329. “The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

330. “A big lie is more plausible than truth.”

— Ernest Hemingway

331. “No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”

— Ernest Hemingway

332. “I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.”

— Ernest Hemingway

333. “All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”

— Ernest Hemingway

334. “Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn’t help it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

335. “I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

336. “Creation’s probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.”

— Ernest Hemingway

337. “We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.”

— Ernest Hemingway

338. “Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.”

— Ernest Hemingway

339. “You won’t do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”

— Ernest Hemingway

340. “This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.”

— Ernest Hemingway

341. “I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.”

— Ernest Hemingway

342. “Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.”

— Ernest Hemingway

343. “If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

344. “We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man’s duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

345. “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

346. “No one ever stopped when they were winning.”

— Ernest Hemingway

347. “Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

348. “You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.”

— Ernest Hemingway

349. “Everything that’s innocent to us is crazy to them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

350. “Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.”

— Ernest Hemingway