The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway · The source reads: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” · A Farewell to Arms (1929), ch. 34

If he wrote it he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

Ernest Hemingway · Winner Take Nothing (1933), Fathers and Sons

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway · The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, and all you're yet to be.

Often credited to Ernest Hemingway · Not Hemingway's; a modern card line that echoes Mary Carolyn Davies's 1918 poem "Love," itself long miscredited to a "Roy Croft."

More Strength Quotes

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

The heroic defence of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock, which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave, but which remains a rock.

Winston Churchill · Broadcast, London, 1 October 1939

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

George Eliot

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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

“If he wrote it he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, and all you're yet to be.”

“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”

“The heroic defence of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock, which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave, but which remains a rock.”

“Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.”