Hemingway ernest quotes island

“But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

“He thought that he would lie down and think about nothing.

Sometimes he could do this. Sometimes he could think about the stars without wondering about them and the ocean without problems and the sunrise without what it would bring.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

“- What happens to people that love each other?
- I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others.

Then one of them gets the emptiness forever.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

“He knew too what it was to live through a hurricane with the other people of the island and the bond that the hurricane made between all people who had been through it.

He also knew that hurricanes could be so bad that