20 Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois (just outside of Chicago) on July 21, 1899. His father, Clarence, was a medical doctor and his mother, Grace, was a voice and piano teacher. As a young boy, his father taught him how to hunt and fish the untouched wilderness of Northern Michigan. Right away in Horton’s Bay, the young boy learned a delicate appreciation for the beauty and intricacy of nature, as he could often be found along the many streams of the area. Although his writing carried him to many large cities like Paris, Chicago, and Toronto, the undying peace and serenity Ernest found in Mother Nature continued throughout his life and is certainly evident in his many works.
- Courage is grace under pressure.
- The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.
- Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
- A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- There is no friend as loyal as a book.
- Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
- The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
- How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
- As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
- We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
- Never mistake motion for action.
- There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
- All things truly wicked start from innocence.
- All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
- The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
- Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
- Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
- Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
