Hemingway Sea Quotes

#1. It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. My big fish must be somewhere.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.

Tom Ford

#5. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. You do realize Kingsley is forty-five, yes?" "I told them," Nora said. "Age is only a number," Angie said. "So is sixty-nine," Maxine said.

Tiffany Reisz

#7. Before we take to the sea, we walk on land ... Before we create, we must understand ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. On suicide:
Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past life.

John Speed

#9. 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,

#10. My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

J. Cole

#11. The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.

Steve Lacy

#13. 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

#14. The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. He knows what I'm about to say
he always does. He is my best friend, my soul mate. In a perfect world, full of roses and sunshine we'd be together, but this is full of broken.

Jessica Sorensen

#16. 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,

#17. 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,

#18. and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He

Ernest Hemingway,

#19. ... 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,

#20. This war that has taken so many sons has spared mine. This
age that has burned so many daughters has not burned mine.
I have not let it.

Tahmima Anam

#21. Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Ernest Hemingway,

#22. 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,

#23. Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.

Kate Williams

#24. 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

#25. 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,

#26. A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island. It

Ernest Hemingway,

#27. It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#28. My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

Seann William Scott

#29. L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.

Hugh Laurie

#30. If you only think outside the box,you will always wonder what's inside. Keep your options open. Lorenzo Victory

Lorenzo Victory

#31. 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,

#32. A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

Johannes Kepler

#33. People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

Yann Martel

#34. Me neither," Shane put in. "Homie don't play that."
"I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all," Amelie said.

Rachel Caine