Ernest Hemingway quotes about courage

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.

“He was probably a coward,” she said. “He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.”

I’m not a bit afraid. It’s just a dirty trick.

I’m not brave any more, darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me. I know it now.

“They won’t get us,” I said. “Because you’re too brave. Nothing ever happens to the brave.”

“If you are going to shoot me,” the lieutenant-colonel said, “please shoot me at once without further questioning. The questioning is stupid.”

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

Romero had the old thing, the holding of his purity of line through the maximum of exposure, while he dominated the bull by making him realize he was unattainable, while he prepared him for the killing.

Ought not to daunt you. Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public.

“I know it,” Romero said. “I’m never going to die.”

Romero never made any contortions, always it was straight and pure and natural in line. The others twisted themselves like corkscrews, their elbows raised, and leaned against the flanks of the bull after his horns had passed, to give a faked look of danger.