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.
You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.
That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.
I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
In the daytime, I was expected to be the straight-A student. I was expected to be college bound. I was expected to be a great big sister. And then at night, I was just a club kid.
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.
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