Ernest Hemingway on Wisdom Quotes

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."

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

"Life is the most beautiful thing that there is, but it is also the most difficult."

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you."

"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will learn you to keep your mouth shut."

"In order to write about life first you must live it."

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"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."

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"True nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

"Never mistake motion for action."

"Everything is much simpler than you can imagine. At the same time as being much more complex than you can conceive."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"The first and last thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."

"Try to learn to breathe deeply, to really taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep."

"I step into the cage of my own making and I like it here."

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously."

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

"One cat just leads to another."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

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

"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day because then they do not exist."

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."