Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 14 | Just Great DataBase

But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés, and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man.

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.

الانسان لم يُخلق للهزيمة .. قد يُدمر الانسان لكنه لا يُهزم

He spat into the ocean and said, Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you’ve killed a man.

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish, he said. Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Where should we go?
I don’t care. Anywhere you want. 
Anywhere we don’t know people.

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. 

You talk like a time-table. Did you have any beautiful adventures?

I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening.

There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

There is a lot of time between now and the fall term. There is a lot of time between now and the day after tomorrow if you want to put it that way ...

But are there not many fascists in your country?""There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

إنها لحماقة إن يستولي اليأس على الإنسان كما أنى لا أعتقد بان اليأس حقيقـــة