Ernest Hemingway

“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole d--n life and one is as good as the other.”

“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

“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.”

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

“We are all broken, that's how the light gets in”

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”