Ernest Hemingway Quotes
10 quotes
Ernest Hemingway
American novelist on courage, love, and living authentically
10 Quotes
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places
— A Farewell to Arms, Chapter 34
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know
— The Garden of Eden
You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another
— The Sun Also Rises, Chapter Two
Courage is grace under pressure
— New Yorker profile, 1929
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed
— Esquire interview, 1935
All thinking men are atheists
— A Farewell to Arms, Chapter Two
Never mistake motion for action
— Letter to H. Ford, 1949
The first draft of anything is shit
— Letter to Arnold Samuelson, Hemingway Letters
But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose
— A Moveable Feast, Section: Ezra Pound and his Bel Esprit
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated
— The Old Man and the Sea