The Sun Also Rises Quotes

Quote 1: "You are all a lost generation." Epigraph

Quote 2: "I rather liked him and evidently she led him quite a life." Chapter 1, pg. 7

Quote 3: "'Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.'" Chapter 2, pg. 10

Quote 4: "He had a hard, Jewish, stubborn streak." Chapter 2, pg. 10

Quote 5: "'Listen, Robert, 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.'" Chapter 2, pg. 11

Quote 6: "'You, a foreigner, an Englishman... have given more than your life.'" Chapter 4, pg. 31

Quote 7: "This was Brett that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing." Chapter 4, pg. 34

Quote 8: "'I misjudged you....You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.'" Chapter 6, pg. 44

Quote 9: "'Don't have scenes with your young ladies. Try not to. Because you can't have scenes without crying, and then you pity yourself so much you can't remember what the other person's said....We all ought to make sacrifices for literature. Look at me. I'm going to England without a protest. All for literature.'" Chapter 6, pg. 50

Quote 10: "[S]he took great pride in telling me which of my guests were well brought up, which were of good family, who were sportsmen, a French word pronounced with the accent on the men. The only trouble was that people who did not fall into any of those three categories were very liable to be told there was no one home, chez Barnes." Chapter 7, pg. 53

Quote 11: "'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.'" Chapter 7, pg. 59

Quote 12: "'That is the secret. You must get to know the values.'" Chapter 7, pg. 60

Quote 13: "'Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog.'" Chapter 8, pg. 72

Quote 14: "I was a little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do about it, at least for a while, and maybe never, but that anyway it was a grand religion, and I only wished I felt religious and maybe I would the next time...." Chapter 10, pg. 97

Quote 15: "I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn--nor as eager. I was enjoying it. It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. Cohn had a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody." Chapter 10, pg. 98

Quote 16: "I was blind, unforgivingly jealous of what had happened to him. The fact that I took it as a matter of course did not alter that any. I certainly did hate him." Chapter 10, pg. 99

Quote 17: "'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 cafés.'" Chapter 12, pg. 115

Quote 18: "For one who had aficion he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me all my friends. Without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bull-fighting." Chapter 13, pg. 132

Quote 19: "'They're only dangerous when they're alone, or only two or three of them together....They only want to kill when they're alone. Of course, if you went in there you'd probably detach one of them from the herd, and he'd be dangerous.'" Chapter 13, pp. 140-141

Quote 20: "It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people." Chapter 13, pg. 146

Quote 21: "I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave something up and got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid some way for everything that was any good." Chapter 14, pg. 148

Quote 22: "Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it." Chapter 14, pg. 148

Quote 23: "That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality." Chapter 14, pg. 149

Quote 24: "The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta." Chapter 15, pg. 154

Quote 25: "'Tell him that bulls have no balls.'" Chapter 16, pg. 175

Quote 26: "'I hate him, too....I hate his damned suffering.'" Chapter 16, pg. 182

Quote 27: "'Oh, darling, please stay by me. Please stay by me and see me through this....I don't say it's right. It is right though for me, God knows, I've never felt such a bitch.'" Chapter 16, pg. 184

Quote 28: "It was not pleasant." Chapter 16, pg. 187

Quote 29: "In bull-fighting they speak of the terrain of the bull and the terrain of the bull-fighter. As long as a bull-fighter stays in his own terrain he is comparatively safe. Each time he enters into the terrain of the bull he is in great danger. Belmonte, in his best days, worked always in the terrain of the bull. This way he gave the sensation of coming tragedy." Chapter 18, pp. 213-214

Quote 30: "Because he did not look up to ask if it pleased he did it all for himself inside, and it strengthened him, and yet he did it for her, too. But he did not do it for her at any loss to himself." Chapter 18, pg. 216

Quote 31: "That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right." Chapter 19, pg. 239

Quote 32: "the end of the line. All trains finish there. They don't go on anywhere." Chapter 19, pp. 239-240

Quote 33: "'You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.'" Chapter 19, pg. 245

Quote 34: "'Yes.....Isn't it pretty to think so?'" Chapter 19, pg. 247