Ernest Hemingway quotes about mortality
31 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 184 in the full collection. Page 2 of 2.
But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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.
“I know it,” Romero said. “I’m never going to die.”
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?
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 · 9 lines (1964)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls quotes · 5 lines (1940)
- The Old Man and the Sea quotes · 5 lines (1952)
- The Sun Also Rises quotes · 86 lines (1926)
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