All ERNEST HEMINGWAY Quotes about “Life”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
“We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.”
“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, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”
“The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.”
“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
“Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“Life is pain, so live it up while you can.”
“A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

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