The Old Man And The Sea Quotes – Book By Ernest Hemingway

We have curated a list of the best The Old Man And The Sea Quotes. Let’s get a look at the list of quotes.

The Old man and the sea is a 1952 novella written by American author Ernest Hemingway. The book is based on a life of an old fisherman who lives in Cuba. He finds it difficult to catch fish because of his age and even, couldn’t catch any fish for 84 days. One day he gets a huge marlin fish but he has to struggle to kill it so that he can get his honor back. 

The book won many awards such as Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; also, the book helps Hemingway to get a Nobel Prize in Literature. 

We talked about the book, now let’s get into the list of Quotes from Old Man And The Sea without further ado. 

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List of best The Old Man And The Sea Quotes

1. “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

2. “But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

3. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

4. “Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

5. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

6. “I may not be as strong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

7. “Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

8. “It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

9. “If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

10. “It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

11. “Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

12. “You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

13. “No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

14. “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

15. “My big fish must be somewhere.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

16. “Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

17. “I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one’s own body.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

18. “Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also, I have no understanding of it.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

19. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

20. “He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

21. “Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

22. “Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

23. “She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

24. “The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

25. “He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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