Top 100 Hemingway Love Quotes
#1. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. I'm never going to be cast as a 'Bond' girl. I mean, I could do it and I would love it. But I don't ooze sexuality.
Dree Hemingway
#6. I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot. That was what the Civil War was about. Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant. So was Jefferson Davis. Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet.
Ernest Hemingway,
#7. You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Ernest Hemingway,
#8. It had been wonderful and they had been truly happy and he had not known that you could love anyone so much that you cared about nothing else and other things seemed inexistent.
Ernest Hemingway,
#9. I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
Ernest Hemingway,
#10. I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway,
#11. In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
Madison Smartt Bell
#12. I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.
Vladimir Putin
#13. When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
Ernest Hemingway,
#16. Poverty is a disease that's cured by the medicine of money.
A. E. Hotchner
#17. Good. I go. And if thou dost not love me, I love thee enough for both.
Ernest Hemingway,
#18. We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.
Mariel Hemingway
#19. I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.
Mariel Hemingway
#20. I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.
Dree Hemingway
#21. I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. I would not wish to bring either a son or a daughter into this world as this world is. And also you take all the love I have to give
Ernest Hemingway,
#24. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
Ernest Hemingway,
#26. I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
Mariel Hemingway
#27. Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.
Mariel Hemingway
#28. She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.
Naomi Wood
#29. You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
Ernest Hemingway,
#30. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Martha Gellhorn
#31. And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
Ernest Hemingway,
#32. Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
Ernest Hemingway,
#33. It's funny," I said. "It's very funny. And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love."
"Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again.
"I don't mean fun that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling."
"No," she said. "I think it's hell on earth.
Ernest Hemingway,
#35. You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.
Paula McLain
#37. But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.
Ernest Hemingway,
#38. There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
Ernest Hemingway,
#39. God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful ...
Ernest Hemingway,
#40. I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#41. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
Ernest Hemingway,
#42. Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.
Ernest Hemingway,
#43. There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#44. He was not in love yet, but he realized that he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle.
Ernest Hemingway,
#45. Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home - I love the culture clash of the city.
Dree Hemingway
#46. You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
Ernest Hemingway,
#47. You ask for the impossible. You ask for the ruddy impossible. So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better lover her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and continuity.
Ernest Hemingway,
#48. Blow, blow, ye western wind ... Christ, that my love were in my arms and I in my bed again. That my love Catherine. That my sweet love Catherine down might rain. Blow her again to me.
Ernest Hemingway,
#49. Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.
Humphrey Bogart
#54. Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.
Ernest Hemingway,
#55. After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.
Ernest Hemingway,
#56. I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
Ernest Hemingway,
#57. Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling.
Ernest Hemingway,
#58. That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.
Ernest Hemingway,
#59. Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
Ernest Hemingway,
#60. I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
Ernest Hemingway,
#61. What a feat, she thinks, to want to marry every woman he fucks. He is so good at being in love that Ernest Hemingway makes a rotten husband.
Naomi Wood
#62. Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.
Ernest Hemingway,
#63. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more? 'You think too much, old man' he said aloud.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. There is no such word as love. Just as there is no word for sorry.
Ernest Hemingway,
#65. She looked fresh and young and very beautiful. I thought I had never seen any one so beautiful. 'Hello,' I said. When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me
Ernest Hemingway,
#66. Tell me some true things about fighting.'Tell me you love me.'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
Ernest Hemingway,
#67. I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.
Anthony Hemingway
#69. Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.
Ernest Hemingway,
#72. I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.
Ernest Hemingway,
#73. 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,
#74. Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
Cyril Connolly
#75. I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
Ernest Hemingway,
#76. But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.
Alessandra Stanley
#78. I've never loved any one else the way I love you. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.'
'Stop it. Harry, why do you have to turn into a devil now?'
'I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
Ernest Hemingway,
#79. Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
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,
#81. I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.
Ernest Hemingway,
#82. You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#83. I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'
John Krasinski
#84. Maybe ... you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
Ernest Hemingway,
#85. Do you always get so hungry when you make love?"
"When you love somebody.
Ernest Hemingway,
#86. There isn't any need to deny everything there's been just because you are going to lose it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#87. I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May
#88. I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.
Ernest Hemingway,
#90. We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
Ernest Hemingway,
#91. I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. I'm always writing little lines and saving them for later.
Imelda May
#92. Books should be about the people you know, that you love and hate, not about the people you study up about.
Ernest Hemingway,
#93. Let us sleep, he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him.
Ernest Hemingway,
#95. Never fall in love?"
"Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
Ernest Hemingway,
#96. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway,
#97. We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
Ernest Hemingway,
#99. You're beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I'd be in love with you. If I saw you for the first time everything would turn over inside of me and I'd ache right through my chest.
Ernest Hemingway,
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