Ernest Hemingway quotes about loneliness
9 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.
I don’t know. Everybody ought to have some place to go.
We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others.
Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.
We mustn’t. Because there’s only us two and in the world there’s all the rest of them. If anything comes between us we’re gone and then they have us.
The night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing.
You were the only friend I had, and I loved Brett so.
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