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- “Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honour.”
- “Well, what is the sense of ruining my head and erasing my memory, which is my capital, and putting me out of business? It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient.
- “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying.
- “The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.” Hemingway wrote these lines in a letter.
- Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. Ernest Hemingway. Life, Death, Rip.
- Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. Ernest Hemingway. Inspirational, Motivational, Death.
- The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. Ernest Hemingway. Inspiring, Death, Hate.
- All thinking men are atheists. Ernest Hemingway. Inspirational, Death, Atheist.
Mar 26, 2015 · Whether fishing for marlin off the coast of Cuba, hunting lions in Kenya, or attempting to do something no one had done before in the medium of fiction, Hemingway tried to live up to his own high standard. He endured on the earth for nearly 62 years before the impulse toward suicide overcame him, as it had overcome his father.
Dec 16, 2023 · “The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.” ― Ernest Hemingway
- The Volatile Life of Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway’s Lifelong Struggle with Mental Illness
- The Death of Ernest Hemingway and Its Controversial Aftermath
- Inside The Devastating “Hemingway Curse”
Although Ernest Hemingway was a prolific author who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work, he led a life full of tragedy and frequently struggled with his mental health. According to the Los Angeles Times, Hemingway’s mother, Grace, was a controlling woman who dressed him as a little girl when he was a child. Sh...
According to the Independent, Ernest Hemingway told a friend after his father’s death, “My life was more or less shot out from under me, and I was drinking much too much entirely through my own fault.” Despite several doctors telling him to stop drinking because he’d developed liver damage as early as 1937, when he was just 38 years old, Hemingway ...
In April 1961, Hemingway boarded a small plane to travel from his home in Idaho to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. According to PBS, when the plane stopped in South Dakota to refuel, Hemingway reportedly tried to walk straight into the propeller — but the pilot cut it off just in time. During his second two-month stay at the clinic, Hemingway underwe...
In the decades following Ernest Hemingway’s suicide, multiple other members of his family took their own lives, as well. According to Biography, his sister Ursula deliberately overdosed on pills in 1966, his brother Leicester shot himself in 1982, and his granddaughter Margaux, a successful supermodel, took a fatal dose of a sedative in 1996. Anoth...
The authorized biography will be published in April by Scribner’s, publishers of almost all of Hemingway’s seven novels, dozens of short stories, and one play. By Carlos Baker. January 1969 ...
Jul 7, 2023 · “There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” ― Ernest Hemingway
