More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
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.
Religion is the opium of the poor.
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.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
