My favorite Ernest Hemingway quotes

Last Updated on 15/07/2024

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Explore my favorite Ernest Hemingway quotes about love, life, writing, and more that are inspiring and deeply thought-provoking to read. Who hasn’t read “The Old Man and the Sea”? It’s in my top ten of classical literature. Who doesn’t know “For whom the bell tolls?” Ernest Hemingway, the renowned American author left us not only masterful classical books but also profound insights about every important aspect of our life and soul. And, in this post, you will find many of his most inspirational quotes.

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My favorite Ernest Hemingway quotes

Hemingway quotes on love

Hemingway had some poignant thoughts on love and his words capture both the joy and pain of love, revealing its complexities and depth. Here are a few of his love quotes:

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”

“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.”

“Everytime I put my arms around you, I felt that I was at home.”

“But in the night he woke and held her tight as thought she were all of life and it was being taken from him.”

“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye – that was the trouble – I wanted to kiss you goodnight – and there’s a lot of difference.”

“No one you love is ever truly lost.”

“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”

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Ernest Hemingway quotes on life

Hemingway’s quotes on life encourage us to embrace life fully, appreciate its nuances, and find beauty in simplicity.

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.”

“We are all broken that’s how the light gets in.”

“Being against evil doesn’t make you good.”

“People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

“Mistakes are proof that you ‘re trying.”

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; But it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

“Remember everything is right until it’s wrong You’ll know when it’s wrong.”

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Hemingway quotes what you do today

Ernest Hemingway once wisely said, “Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.” This reminder encourages us to seize the present moment and recognize the impact our actions today can have on our future.

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what of what you can do with what there is.”

“Time is the least thing we have of.”

Ernest Hemingway quotes on writing

Ernest Hemingway shared valuable insights about the craft of writing and his wisdom encourages writers to persevere, revise diligently, and breathe life into their fictional worlds. Here are some of his memorable quotes:

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”

“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”

“The only kind of writing is rewriting.”

“When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”

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