Ernest Hemingway

United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist

Quotes



Work could cure almost anything.

A Moveable Feast
People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

A Moveable Feast
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be.

A Moveable Feast
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

A Moveable Feast
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.

A Moveable Feast
Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

A Moveable Feast
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays