Top 28 Ernest Hemingway Sea Quotes
#1. Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#2. It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea ...
Ernest Hemingway,
#3. ... Her lips an island in the sudden white sea of pain that came in a shining, unbearable, rising, blinding wave and swept him clean.
Ernest Hemingway,
#4. To see the beauty of the silent language that comes deep within a heart,only notice the words in type that stir the truth of imaginations dreams.
Joseph
Joseph Arrigo
#5. Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.
L.A. Serrot
#7. 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,
#8. I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.
Dree Hemingway
#9. Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
Ernest Hemingway,
#12. Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.
Edward Snowden
#13. The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.
Ernest Hemingway,
#14. I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record ... So I was just writing songs.
Billy Sherwood
#16. I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'
Jenny Lewis
#17. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
Ernest Hemingway,
#19. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
Ernest Hemingway,
#20. Before we take to the sea, we walk on land ... Before we create, we must understand ...
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values ... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.
Daisaku Ikeda
#22. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway,
#25. The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
Ernest Hemingway,
#26. What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I'm capable of breaking a new artist into a competitive field. People can't wrap their head around the fact that Gaga did not do that on her own. She didn't. There was a Laurieann Gibson.
Laurieann Gibson
#27. No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things
Ernest Hemingway,
#28. Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
Ernest Hemingway,
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