Ernest Hemingway Inspiring Quotations

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

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Man is not made for defeat.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

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