Quotes About Farewell To Arms

#1. Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Robert Reed

#2. When I put the poncho on to show Elf she said farewell to arms.

Miriam Toews

#3. War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

David Mamet

#4. A Farewell to Arms To

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon - as well as all of the short stories that writers studied for the inner trick of them. But there was no trickery: only the plain words put there as if they had always been there - like pebbles cooled in a river.

Naomi Wood

#6. I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. Esther loses her virginity, hemorrhages during the process, and almost bleeds to death - like Catherine in A Farewell to Arms - and I do wonder why women are always hemorrhaging in American literature.

Matthew Quick

#8. Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle. Those books are like old friends. When

Gabrielle Zevin

#10. I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. not as a potential lover. Roger would have liked it otherwise, but he was wise

Elizabeth Lowell

#12. And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.

Joey Bishop

#14. Although I don't know much about anything, I know that I have a story. I know that it is not over. There are shades and shadows of adventures and people and wild new places. Whatever Paris might turn out to be, and whatever Dr. Epstein is able to do, I want to be there to find out.

Emily Barr

#15. It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. I read books, I ate when compelled, I sometimes wrote embellished accounts of my day in a leather-bound black diary. I was the sort of child who generally had to be coerced into playing with other children.

Danielle Evans

#17. I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer.

Paul Rand

#18. Your ideal body weight as an ectomorph at 6' 0 will be 214.378 lbs. There. Happy? And if you lose or gain a pound, I will have you killed. It is important to be ideal.

Mark Rippetoe

#19. Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Ernest Hemingway,

#20. If you're saying farewell to your arms, what do you use to wave goodbye?

Stephen Colbert

#21. My biggest regret is being naive enough in thinking that what happened is a big enough reason to miss out on each other's live.

Frank Warren

#22. Apparently, a conscience is a useful thing to lack.

Anna Zaires

#23. There - fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will.

Peter Kreeft

#24. I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

M.J. Rose

#25. I haven't had everything from life. I've had too much.

Rita Hayworth

#26. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

Ernest Hemingway,

#27. 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,

#28. Whatever you do, just don't stand still. Make the changes you need today, so you can live the life you want, tomorrow.

Joel Brown