Discover the best quotes and phrases from the book The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Best Old Man and the Sea Quotes
"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)
"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)
"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)
"It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?"
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"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)
"Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?"
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"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)
"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)
Important Quotes From The Old Man And The Sea
"Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"No one should be alone in their old age, he thought."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"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)
"I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"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)
"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)
"Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought"
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
"He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
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