"The Old Man and the Sea" Quotes

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

It is silly not to hope. It is a sin he thought.

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.

The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

I may not be as strong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I’ll stay with you until I am dead.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

He loved the old man now.