The Sun Also Rises Quotes

You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around café s.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a b**ch. Yes. It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

You’re not a moron. You’re only a case of arrested development.

You ought to dream. All our biggest business men have been dreamers.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright, and inclined to blur at the edges.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Isn’t it pretty to think so?

I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.