Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.
Interpretation
This quote expresses deep feelings of misery and emotional turmoil experienced by the speaker.
Ernest Hemingway's quote reflects a profound sense of sadness and the struggle of dealing with personal anguish. The use of 'darling' suggests an intimate relationship, highlighting that such feelings may be shared with a loved one, emphasizing the importance of connection during difficult times. The honesty in expressing misery serves as a call for empathy and understanding in human relationships.
In practice
In a heartfelt conversation with a friend about life's challenges.
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 the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.
My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.
Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
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