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Ernest Hemingway quotes
10 quotes from 1 of Ernest Hemingway’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
A farewell to arms
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others.
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
“All thinking men are atheists,” the major said.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter II
I’m not brave any more, darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XLI
“No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XXXV
But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XXI
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XI
Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XXXVIII
“There is nothing worse than war.”
— Passini · Chapter IX
Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XVI