Ernest Hemingway

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

Quotes



You're my religion. You're all I've got.

A Farewell to Arms
What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

A Farewell to Arms
War is not won by victory.

A Farewell to Arms
There is not always an explanation for everything.

A Farewell to Arms
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

A Farewell to Arms
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

A Farewell to Arms
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

A Farewell to Arms
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

A Farewell to Arms
But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

A Farewell to Arms
All thinking men are atheists.

A Farewell to Arms
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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