12 Profound Quotes By Ernest Hemingway

1. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”  ― Ernest Hemingway


2.  “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”  ― Ernest Hemingway


3.  “Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” ― Ernest Hemingway


4.  “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. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.” ― Ernest Hemingway


5.  “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” ― Ernest Hemingway


6.  “But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.” ― Ernest Hemingway


7.  “No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” ― Ernest Hemingway


8.  When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen. ― Ernest Hemingway


9.  “The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.” ― Ernest Hemingway


10. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ― Ernest Hemingway


11.  “Hunger is good discipline.” ― Ernest Hemingway


12.  “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” ― Ernest Hemingway