Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Farewell To Arms
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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
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My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
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I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
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This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
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You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
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There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.
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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
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I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.
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Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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