Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.

If I do it you won't ever worry?' 'I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.' Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I though, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had.

It's funny,' I said. 'It's very funny. And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love.' 'Do you think so?' her eyes looked flat again. 'I don't mean fun in that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling.' 'No,' she said. 'I think it's hell on earth.

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.

Heresy is the foe of countenance

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

For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want him for long He maketh me to lie down in green pastures and there are no green pastures He leadeth me beside still waters and still waters run deep

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now. I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.