F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.
The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself
There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!
When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
