Top 97 Hemingway Life Quotes
#1. There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), ...
Ernest Hemingway,
#3. I have spent
or wasted
my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.
Brock Yates
#4. I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
Mariel Hemingway
#7. All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway,
#8. The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end.
Ernest Hemingway,
#9. I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway,
#10. I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.
Mariel Hemingway
#11. I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.
Margaux Hemingway
#12. You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.
Ernest Hemingway,
#13. I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.
Mariel Hemingway
#14. You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead your life. It's strange, but when you get hurt - really hurt, I mean - you're willing to throw those ideas aside for another set that now make sense to you and calm your hurt.
Carlos Baker
#16. Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.
Ernest Hemingway,
#18. I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.
Mariel Hemingway
#19. Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
Ernest Hemingway,
#20. Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn't matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.
Mariel Hemingway
#21. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
Ernest Hemingway,
#24. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway,
#25. Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won't you? Because we're going to have a strange life.
Ernest Hemingway,
#26. You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.
Paulo Coelho
#27. But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
Ernest Hemingway,
#28. You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything.
Ernest Hemingway,
#29. There is no symbolism to these fish, as Hemingway wrote. A cabezon is just a cabezon; a garibaldi, a garibaldi. But what wonderful stories they tell us about life in the ocean!
Susan J. Tweit
#31. Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.
Malcolm Cowley
#32. For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.
Ernest Hemingway,
#33. I think it's the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it's cool.
Mariel Hemingway
#34. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Martha Gellhorn
#35. Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.
Naomi Wood
#37. You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.
Paula McLain
#38. Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
Ernest Hemingway,
#40. So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#41. When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
Mariel Hemingway
#42. Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
Ernest Hemingway,
#43. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.
Ernest Hemingway,
#44. You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
Ernest Hemingway,
#45. The stories Hemingway told, the life he lived, all of it ended with a squeeze of a finger on a trigger. What else could he have done if he had put the shotgun down, gone back to bed? What would he have learned in that moment of choosing to live, what other books would have been written? Meanwhile,
Kamal Ravikant
#47. Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#48. It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones.
Ernest Hemingway,
#50. Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
Mariel Hemingway
#51. The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway,
#52. We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.
Ernest Hemingway,
#53. Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.
Ernest Hemingway,
#54. Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.
Mariel Hemingway
#55. 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,
#56. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#57. I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life
Ernest Hemingway,
#58. Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
Ernest Hemingway,
#59. 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.
Ernest Hemingway,
#60. For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
Mariel Hemingway
#61. So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.
Ernest Hemingway,
#62. I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.
Mariel Hemingway
#63. Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.
Mariel Hemingway
#64. You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.
T.C. Boyle
#65. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.
Ernest Hemingway,
#66. There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
Ernest Hemingway,
#67. Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
Ernest Hemingway,
#68. Ernest Hemingway said it best: "A novel is just like real life, with the boring parts taken out.
Lee Gimenez
#69. Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
Ernest Hemingway,
#70. Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
Ernest Hemingway,
#71. I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#72. In the night he awoke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken away from him.
Ernest Hemingway,
#73. Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.
Mariel Hemingway
#74. You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
Ernest Hemingway,
#76. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway,
#78. I do a lot of work with mental health and wellness, which I also believe has a lot to do with your lifestyle as well - what you're eating, how you're living, what you're thinking. How you live your life can affect your mental state.
Mariel Hemingway
#79. I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.
Ernest Hemingway,
#80. I would like to have it for my whole life. You will, the other part of him said. You will. You have it _now_ and that is all your whole life is; now.
Ernest Hemingway,
#82. The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
Ernest Hemingway,
#83. I watched him walk back to the cafe holding his paper. I rather liked him and evidently she led him quite a life.
Ernest Hemingway,
#85. 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.
Ernest Hemingway,
#87. Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway,
#90. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.
Liz Hemingway
#91. Let's say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.
Ernest Hemingway,
#92. I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.
Ernest Hemingway,
#94. Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
Ernest Hemingway,
#95. I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.
Sylvia Beach
#97. They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Ernest Hemingway,
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