More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Religion is the opium of the poor.
Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.
