Ernest Hemingway quotes about life
8 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Ernest Hemingway wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 165 in the full collection.
Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that's always hungry in America.
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.
Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.
Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it. You could get your money’s worth. The world was a good place to buy in.
At noon of Sunday, the 6th of July, the fiesta exploded. There is no other way to describe it.
That is the secret. You must get to know the values.
From the books
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- A Farewell to Arms quotes · 68 lines (1929)
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