Ernest Hemingway quotes about memory & the past
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 172 in the full collection.
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels.
The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college.
I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.
It was as though we met again after each of us had been away on a long journey.
But there in my country it is understood that a man may love God. It is not a dirty joke.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.
From the books
Every book with a quote collection of its own, each line verified against the text.
- A Farewell to Arms quotes · 68 lines (1929)
- A Moveable Feast quotes · 7 lines (1964)
- The Sun Also Rises quotes · 86 lines (1926)
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