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A Farewell to Arms QUOTES

A Farewell to Arms QUOTES

1 " Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

2 " All thinking men are atheists. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

3 " God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful... "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

4 " There isnt always an explanation for everything. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

5 " No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

6 " 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. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

7 " I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

8 " I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

9 " I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.  "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

10 " He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

11 " 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. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

12 " 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. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

13 " The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

14 " I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

15 " I felt very lonely when they were all there. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

16 " I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

17 " Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

18 " That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. 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. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

19 " They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

20 " At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman 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. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. "

― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms