“The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Papa Hemingway (1966)

About Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961

American novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate (1954), author of 'The Old Man and the Sea' and 'A Farewell to Arms'.

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

“Every day above earth is a good day.”

“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”

“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!”