Ernest Hemingway Quotes

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.

I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

I want to set an example that will never be forgotten.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.