Ernest Hemingway is one of the most influential American authors that ever lived. His understated style has spread its influence throughout 20th-century fiction like a wildfire, and his adventurous public image has left its mark on many generations to come.
This rugged, hard-working, hard-drinking fellow was a larger-than-life figure who led a spectacular life, which can be felt through his writing.
There are countless biographies out there that can quickly conclude that he was something of a badass. But did you know that besides hunting in the savannah, covering wars during his journalistic years, and never ceasing to write, he also suffered severe mental health conditions?
He also lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, skin cancer, anemia, diabetes, two plane crashes, ruptured spleen, liver, and kidney. Talk about a true survivor!
However, every seeming hero has his kryptonite. And for Hemingway… well, that was Hemingway himself.
He fell victim to psychotic episodes and developed severe paranoia, which is why his wife sent him to a mental institution. Unfortunately, he couldn’t survive the brutal conditions, which is why he committed suicide at age 61.
Despite everything, he still won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and published seven novels and six short story collections. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
Hopefully, the love quotes that follow can help you understand a little bit the literary genius that was Ernest Hemingway and convince you that besides his remarkable (and a bit sad) life, he still had a place in his heart for love.
Best Love Quotes By Ernst Hemingway
1. I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there’s a lot of difference.
2. When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay, and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila’s horses’ hooves have ever scoured.
3. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
4. I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.
5. You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
6. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
7. Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
8. 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. I pulled her down and kissed her and felt her heart beating.
9. We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
Last Love Quotes By Hemingway
10. There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
11. “And you’ll always love me, won’t you?”
“Yes.”
“And the rain won’t make any difference?”
“No.”
12. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
13. Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling.
14. And we’ll never love anyone else but each other.
15. You’re beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I’d be in love with you. If I saw you for the first time everything would turn over inside of me and I’d ache right through my chest.
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