Ernest Hemingway Quotes

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Time is the least thing we have of.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You’re grateful for these different chances.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.