Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway's collection of the most iconic quotations and thoughts.


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


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.


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


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


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


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


Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.


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


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.


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


About Ernest Hemingway:
was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.