Earnest Hemingway > Quotes

“He did not like to look at the fish anymore since he had been mutilated. When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit.

But I killed the shark that hit my fish, he thought. And he was the biggest dentuso that I have ever seen. And God knows that I have seen big ones.

It was too good to last, he thought. I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.

"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“The wind is our friend, anyway, he thought. Then he added, sometimes. And the great sea with our friends and our enemies. And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought.”
― Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“There is no friend as loyal as a book”
― Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Now is no time to think of baseball, he thought. Now is the time to think of only one thing. That which I was born for.”
― Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“His hope and his confidence had never gone. But now they were freshening as when the breeze rises.”
― Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”
― Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“He is much fish still and I saw that the hook was in the corner of his mouth and he has kept his mouth shut. The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.”
― Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“There you could always go into the Luxembourg museum and all the paintings were sharpened and clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry. I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat. It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have been sleepless or hungry. Later I thought Cézanne was probably hungry in a different way.”
― Earnest Hemingway

“its pretty to think so”
― Earnest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I can't stand to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Earnest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises