Citations from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“The world breaks everyone and afterwards 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 it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”

'It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser.‘

‘You are wise.’

‘No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.’

‘Perhaps that is wisdom.’

‘It is a very unattractive wisdom.’