Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

You never look old. -The body is that which grows old. The spirit is neither older, nor much wiser.

He wants to in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.

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.

But, in yourself, you said that you would write about these people ... and for once it would be written by some one who knew what he was writing of. But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything.

That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles and chronicles and seen the Brady

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

In the cottage the doctor, sitting on the bed in his room, saw a pile of medical journals on the floor by the bureau. They were still in their wrappers unopened. It irritated him.

You saw fear and apprehension. The fear was made by what he had been through. The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined.

We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.

God pity the Spanish people. Any leader they have will muck them.