We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the joy of simple pleasures shared with loved ones.
Ernest Hemingway's quote reflects the beauty of a fulfilling life through shared experiences of good food, warmth, and love. It highlights that happiness does not stem from material wealth but rather from the quality of relationships and the simple joys we share with those we care about.
In practice
A couple's wedding vows may include this quote to signify the importance of their bond.
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.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.
Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get β only what you are expecting to give β which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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