1. “Be patient, hand,” he said. “I do this for you.”
2. “He is my brother. But I must kill him and keep strong to do it.”
3. “Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”
4. “I told the boy I was a strange old man,” he said. “Now is when I must prove it.”
5. “All my life the early sun has hurt my eyes. Yet they are still good.”
6. “Bed is my friend.”
7. “Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?.”
8. “The thousand times he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.”
9. “He knew he would need his hands.”
10. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
11. “I may not be as strong as I think,’ the old man said, ‘But I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
12. “You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?.”
13. “He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and able.”
14. “Ay,” the old man said. “Galanos. Come on galanos.”
15. “But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.”
16. “Take a good rest, small bird,” he said. “Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.”
17. “Fight them,” he said. “I’ll fight them until I die.”
18. “Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
19. “I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?.”
20. “Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.”
21. “Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.”
22. “It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it.”
23. “I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this,” he said. “Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I’ll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.”
24. “It was an hour before the first shark hit him.”
25. “Good night then. I will wake you in the morning.” “You’re my alarm clock,” the boy said. “Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?” “I don’t know,” the boy said. “All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.” “I can remember it,” the old man said. “I’ll waken you in time.”
26. “and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He”
27. “It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
28. “I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
29. “Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.”
30. “You bought me a beer,” the old man said. “You are already a man.”
31. “he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”
32. “First you borrow. Then you beg.”
33. “If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy,’ he said aloud. ‘But since I am not crazy, I do not care.”
34. “Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought.”
35. “He can’t have gone, he said “Christ know he can’t have gone. He’s making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it.” The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.”
36. “Fish,” he said softly, aloud, “I’ll stay with you until I am dead.”
37. “But they went through this fiction every day.”
38. “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.”
39. “I’ll kill him though,’ he said. ‘In all his greatness and his glory.”
40. “It is not bad,” he said. “And pain does not matter to a man.”
41. “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. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought.”
42. “It is silly not to hope, he thought. Besides I believe it is a sin.”
43. “The fish is my friend too,” he said aloud. “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.”
44. “He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy.”
45. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
46. “You’ll not fish without eating while I’m alive.”
47. “But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.”
48. “What an excellent fish dolphin is to eat cooked,” he said. “And what a miserable fish raw. I will never go in a boat again without salt or limes.”
49. “I wish I had the boy.”
50. “Think about something cheerful, old man,” he said. “Every minute now you are closer to home.”
51. “You’re with a lucky boat. Stay with them.”
52. “Besides, he thought, everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive.”
53. “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
54. “They are good,” he said. “They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish.”
55. “Don’t forget to tell Pedrico the head is his.”
56. “Everything about him was old except his eyes, and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”
57. “And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.”
58. “A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island.” It”
59. “It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought.”
60. “Fish,” he said, “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”
61. “Half fish,” he said. “Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But we have killed many sharks, you and I, and ruined many others. How many did you ever kill, old fish? You do not have that spear on your head for nothing.”
62. “All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.”
63. “Fish,” he said softly, aloud. “I’ll stay with you until I am dead.”
64. “You’re feeling it now, fish,” he said. “And so, God knows, am I.”
65. “He was eighteen feet from nose to tail,” the fisherman who was measuring him called.”
66. “Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.”
67. “Fish,” the old man said. “Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?”
68. “No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. But it is unavoidable.”
69. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.”
70. “But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
71. “And pain does not matter to a man.”
72. “The man isn’t born for defeats.He can fall from grace,but he cannot be defeated.”
73. “That’s two dollars and a half. Who can we borrow that from?” “That’s easy. I can always borrow two dollars and a half.”
74. “It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
75. “What kind of a hand is that,’ he said. ‘Cramp then if you want. Make yourself into a claw. It will do you no good.”
76. “He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.”
77. “The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.”
78. “Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”
79. “I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one’s own body.”
80. “Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
81. “Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.”
82. “He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”
83. “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.”
84. “I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.”
85. “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”
86. “Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”
87. “You did not do so badly for something worthless,’ he said to his left hand. ‘But there was a moment where I could not find you.”
88. “Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty. He seemed to hang in the air above the old man in the skiff. Then he fell into the water with a crash that sent spray over the old man and over all of the skiff.”
89. “The fish is calm and steady. I will eat it all and then I will be ready.”
90. “He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish’s agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.”
91. “But I fear the Indians of Cleveland.”
92. “Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
93. “You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who. Now”
94. “He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed.”
95. “But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
96. “Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”
97. “They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.
98. “trickery”
99. “The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”
100. “He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”
101. “The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.”
102. “He can’t have gone,” he said. “Christ knows he can’t have gone. He’s making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and he remembers something of it.”
103. “Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated”
