Ernest Hemingway quotes about disillusionment

That is the secret. You must get to know the values.

Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog.

I was enjoying it. It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. Cohn had a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody.

“It would be like betting on the war,” I said. “You don’t need any economic interest.”

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality.

I can’t help it. I’ve never been able to help anything.

“Some people have God,” I said. “Quite a lot.”

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason.

You haven’t any values. You’re dead, that’s all.

A big horn wound. All for fun. Just for fun. What do you think of that?

Pernod is greenish imitation absinthe. When you add water it turns milky. It tastes like licorice and it has a good uplift, but it drops you just as far.