Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 26 | Just Great DataBase

The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all

Azt hiszem – gondolta –, hetven órában csakúgy elfér az egész élet, mint hetven évben; de csak ha az ember már kinőtt a gyerekkorból, s ha már s hetven óra kezdetét is gazdag élet előzte meg.

I wondered where Cohn got that incapacity to enjoy Paris. Possibly from Mencken. Mencken hates Paris, I believe. So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken.

do you want me to shoot thee, ingles?...quieres? it is nothing.

I knelt and started to pray and prayed for everybody I thought of, Brett and Mike and Bill and Robert Cohn and myself, and all the bullfighters, separately for the ones I liked, and lumping all the rest, then I prayed for myself again, and while i was praying for myself I found I was getting sleepy, so I prayed that the bull-fights would be good, and that it would be a fine fiesta, and that we would get some fishing. I wondered if there was anything else I might pray for, and I thought I would like to have some money, so I prayed that I would make a lot of money, and then I started to think how I would make it and thinking of making money reminded me of the count, and I started wondering about where he was, and regretting I hadn't seen him since that night in Montmartre, and about something funny Brett told me about him, and as all the time I was kneeling with my forehead on the wood in front of me, and was thinking of myself praying, I was a little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do about it, at least for a while, and maybe never, but that anyway it was a grand religion, and I only wished I felt religious and maybe I would the next time; and then I was out in the hot sun on the steps of the cathedral, and the forefingers and the thumb of my right hand were still damp, and I felt them dry in the sun.

Az ember végigmegy az életén, s mindenféle helyzetről azt hiszi, jelent valamit, s végül kiderül, hogy nem.

Desconfio de todas as pessoas francas e simples, principalmente quando suas histórias são coerentes.

Ha valóban úgy szereted ezt a lányt, ahogy mondod, próbáld meg még jobban szeretni, hogy e szerelem ereje kárpótoljon a jövőért, örökkévalóságáért. Érted? Valaha az emberek egész életüket szentelhették az ilyesféléknek, neked most be kell érned két éjszakával. Két éjszakával. Két éjszakában kell elférnie a szeretetnek, tisztességnek, gondoskodásnak. Jónak – rossznak. Betegségnek és halálnak. Vagy nem így mondták? Jóban – rosszban. Betegségben – egészségben. Ásó-kapa választ el benneteket egymástól.

Durante o dia, nada mais fácil do que mostrar que não se dá importância, mas, à noite, é diferente.

Gondold el: ha volna Isten, soha nem engedte volna azt a sok mindent, amit én láttam, a két szememmel.

I could picture it. I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Don’t ever kid yourself with too much dialectics.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Amíg egyikünk él, mind a ketten élünk.

Isn’t it rotten? There isn’t any use my telling you I love you.

When we have just seen the sky full of airplanes of a quantity to kill us back to our grandfathers and forward to all unborn grandsons including all cats, goats and bedbugs. Airplanes making a noise to curdle the milk in your mother’s breasts as they pass over darkening the sky and roaring like lions and you ask me to take things seriously. I take them too seriously already.

He was fairly happy, except that, like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America, and he had discovered writing.

Úgy érzi, az övé kivételes eset. Vagy talán csak azért, mert vele történt?

He was not in love yet, but he realized that he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle.

Nem szívesen távozom a világból, nagyon nem szívesen, de remélem, nem dolgomvégezetlenül megyek. Megtettem mindent ami erőmből tellett.