Ernest Hemingway | Novelist & Writer ✍️

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

I am always in love.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

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 they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

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

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest...

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

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 they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

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

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.