44 Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes (WRITING)

Top 12 Most Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes (BEST)

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. — Never go on trips with anyone you do not **love**.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. — I like to listen. I have **learned** a great deal from listening carefully.

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. — **Happiness** in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. — The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to **trust** them.

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

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. — 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.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

21 Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Death, Writing and The Sea (LIFE)

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. — 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.

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.

Never confuse movement with action. — Never confuse movement with **action**.

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

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

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

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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

Courage is grace under pressure. — **Courage** is **grace** under pressure.

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

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. — Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I never had to choose a subject—my subject rather chose me.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. — You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. — It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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

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

11 Thought-provoking Ernest Hemingway Quotes to Make You Think (PONDER)

“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

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. — All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. — The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of **happiness** except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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. — 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 cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. — A cat has absolute emotional **honesty**: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

No, that is the great fallacy the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — No, that is the great fallacy: the **wisdom** of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend **time** with his fools.

Ernest Miller Hemingway Short Biography

Born on 21 July 1899 in Cicero, Illinois, United States, Ernest Miller Hemingway is the author of several books and short stories and was a Nobel Laureate.

Hemingway began writing in high school, and after graduating in 1917 he decided not to pursue college and instead moved to Kansa City and became a reporter for the Star.

During World War I, Hemingway served as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. In 1918, Hemingway was injured in Italy and was hospitalized and awarded for his bravery.

After recovering from his injury, he returned to writing. In 1924, his collection of stories entitled In Our Time was published in Paris and was published again a year later in New York.

Hemingway experienced his first real success when he published his novel The Sun Also Rises in 1926. Three years later he published Farewell to Arms, a war novel where he successfully fused a love story and a war story.

Hemingway was a frequent traveler throughout his lifetime. In 1953, after a plane crash in Africa, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his short novel The Old Man and the Sea.

Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 for “the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.” (Source)

Further Reading:

The Hemingway Influence – Cliffs Notes
The Importance of Being Ernest – The Guardian
John Walsh Unravels the Mystery Behind Hemingway’s Suicide – Independent
Why Ernest Hemingway Was Probably the Most Interesting Man in the World – ZME Science

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