Ernest Hemingway Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

2. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

3. Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself. For Whom the Bell Tolls

4. God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful... A Farewell to Arms

5. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. The Garden of Eden

6. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

7. I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you. The Garden of Eden

8. I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

9. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

10. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

11. In the chair, watching the fire and thinking of Pop and how sad it was that he was not immortal, and how happy I was that he had been able to be with us so much, that we’d been lucky enough to have three or four things together that were like the Old Days along with just the happiness of being together and talking and joking, I fell asleep. True at First Light

12. Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good," I said. "That's what I want too. A Farewell to Arms

13. Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love. The Sun Also Rises

14. No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. A Farewell to Arms

15. Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so? The Sun Also Rises

16. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

17. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

18. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Men Without Women

19. This is a good place," he said."There's a lot of liquor," I agreed. The Sun Also Rises

20. We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other. A Moveable Feast

21. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. A Farewell to Arms

22. Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. A Farewell to Arms

23. You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

24. How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time. For Whom The Bell Tolls

25. I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. A Farewell to Arms

26. it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

27. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. Death in the Afternoon

28. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it. The Old Man and the Sea

29. Oh, darling, she said. You will be good to me, won’t you?What the hell, I thought. I stroked her hair and patted her shoulder. She was crying. You will, won’t you? She looked up at me. Because we’re going to have a strange life. A Farewell to Arms

30. The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.