F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.
Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.
The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.
You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.
If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.
What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?
As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.
"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.
One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.
Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing
He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.
...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.
He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.
I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.
