Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't! I

Belmonte was no longer well enough. He no longer had his greatest moments in the bull-ring. He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.

Your nationalities do not show when you are dead.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

Black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes were instituted by the devil to force people to live in cities where he could get at them better. If it weren't for them everybody would live in the bush and he would be out of work. It was a rather successful invention.

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

But the world they were in was not the world he was in.

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me.

Religion is the opium of the poor. I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.

We are all broken — that's how the light gets in.

Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.