A Farewell To Arms Quotes By Ernest Hemingway

We have curated a list of the best A Farewell To Arms quotes. Let’s get a look at the list of quotes.

A Farewell To Arms is a war novel, which means the set of the book is in the Italian campaign of World War I. The novel is written by Ernest Hemingway who is one of the great writers in America’s history. The book was published in 1929 and it is written in a first-person perspective. The story tells about an American man, Fredric Henry who is working in Italian-army.

In this article, we have mentioned some best quotes from A Farewell To Arms book so without further ado, let’s get into the list. 

List of Best A Farewell To Arms Quotes

1. “All thinking men are atheists.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

2. “If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one 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, A Farewell to Arms

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

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

4. “I’m not brave anymore darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

5. “But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

6. “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

7. “When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

8. “I know 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

9. “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, A Farewell to Arms

10. “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.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

11. “Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

12. “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

13. “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.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

14. “Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

15. “You’ve such a lovely temperature.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

16. “You know I don’t love any one but you. You shouldn’t mind because some one else loved me.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

17. “There isnt always an explanation for everything.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

18. “Wine is a grand thing,” I said. “It makes you forget all the bad.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

19. “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.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

20. “Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

21. “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

22. “There isn’t any me. I’m you. Don’t make up a separate me.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

23. “You won’t do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

24. “My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

25. “I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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