F. Scott Fitzgerald is a famous American novelist. He popularized the term Jazz Age. This period of the Jazz age is from 1920-1930. In this era, Jazz music and dance gained national popularity in the United States. He published novels and a collection of short stories. During the period of 1920s, he gained a little part of success. The great success achieved by Fitzgerald is after his death. He was considered the greatest American writer of the 20th century. In the year 1920, he published his first commercially successful novel titled This Side of Paradise. When he went to Europe, he was influenced by the modernist and wrote the second novel in 1922 titled The Beautiful and Damned.
He was not satisfied with his works and earnings. Therefore, he went to Hollywood to write and revise screenplays. His last novel was left unfinished and was completed by Edmund Wilson and published after his death titled The Last Tycoon (1941). The common theme of F.Scott Fitzgerald novels is failure and promises of the American Dream. Below are some of the famous F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes.
The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
F.Scott Fitzgerald writes this quote in on effect his novel. He wants to explain that the saddest moment is when you see your life is getting away from you. Everything in your life is far from you, whether it's your passion or money. There is no way to correct it except watching it go far from you. This makes you a weak person with time.
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
Don't ever leave your judgments on selfish and bad people. This world is full of selfish and bad people. This quote directly states the willingness of a person to delay judgment on the people who behave badly to them. You cannot change some people in this world. If they don't want to change, you are not able to change them.
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
There is a discussion going on and after F.Scott Fitzgerald discussed the financial situation. He was next talked about morality. He included that I thought no one is regretting losing the youth while everyone is thinking about the experience of losing innocence at that stage.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
He said that in this world, all people must belong to one of these categories. Everyone is interested in a pursued person. In the case of pursuing, one is always chasing things. The busy have no time for things, and the tired one is considered lazy who doesn't care about things.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
This quote means that show your care or friendship to people when they are around you. Don't appreciate or prove your friendship when they have left you or after they've died.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
This quote means that F.Scott Fitzgerald loves and likes everyone with his fullest of heart. But from the opposite party, they didn't get any love sign for him. This disappointed him a lot.No on his appreciating his work when he was alive. In the last part, he included that his heart is in the right place where the god puts it, but he thought others do not have in the right place.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
This quote means that in this entire world. There is a lot of love present with different relationships. The love you received from one partner is different from the next partner. Therefore, always take your second chance to receive all kind of love in this single life and to think about the pureness of your past relationships.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
This means that you may fall back to back, but you will stand straight up on your shoulders one day. A single mistake in life doesn't conclude that you won't succeed in life. Always remember that the fight to succeed continues from your part until you succeed.
No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.
This quotes F.Scott Fitzgerald said for his wife. He said that she isn't beautiful externally while she is Internally beautiful. The external beauty is temporary and becomes dull with age, while she is possessed with internal soul beauty, which is forever and never-ending.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
He quotes this statement in one of his novels where he wants to convey something. From his thought, no one in this world can imagine what a person standing next to you was thinking about you. You have no idea about his heart or brain. In the novel, he concludes as how much Gatsby has built her up in his mind, so much so that no real person could ever live up to the fantasy. This means that you have no idea about a real person.
I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
This quote means that he was not free from control. He was controlled by his emotions, likes, and desires. When he thinks that he is not in control of anyone, he ends up being controlled by emotions, likes, and desires.
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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Some people suffer internally and externally. Some of them survived, but they live with guilty, and others who are worthy are dead. Tragedies are inevitable. The important part of being heroic is the presence of tragedies in your life.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
When some character qualities like honesty, charm, etc., collaborate, the work result is perfection. In one of his novels, he listed that Gatsby's personality perfectly suits any social environment, while his charisma, charm, and appearance simultaneously enhance his character. Your additional qualities are worth enhancing your improvement.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
Life acts as a season. It hanges from time to time. While a fall denotes downfall, spring denotes the beginning of the harvesting season at the end of summer.
The world only exists in your eyes– your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.
The way of looking at the world is to depend on you. If you want to be a richer person, you can be, and if preferr being poor, you will be. Therefore, it concludes that the idea of world-conception is up to you to make it and crack it for your happiness. If you start cracking the ways of living a happy life, the world begins to crack with you.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
He wants to convey that the basis of writing a novel is experience and imagination. Both of these things are share and read by many people. It doesn't mean that we are alone. Apart from reading, if people understand all these experiences, it doesn't leave you in a lonely world. It doesn't matter to whom these experiences are conveyed.
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In a real night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
When a person suffers a lot and feeling low, he is asleep. This results in stressful and lonely early morning hours around 3 a.m. Everyone around is sleeping soundly, but your anxieties are high at that time. The lonely feeling at 3 a.m.is the same as the thing when going bad in your life.
All life was the weather, a waiting through the hot where events had no significance for the cool that was soft and caressing like a woman's hand on a tired forehead.
Life is like the weather; we don't know when it changes. Some events happen in our life which have no significance, and we don't learn anything from these incidents. Make it worth living. There is something that has no meaning, but the whole life has meaning. Make it a better living place with a beautiful meaning.
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
This quote expresses love, which means that he only wants to know that she was lived with her in the same world. He thinks of the dream world where he lives. He wants her to live with every situation, emotion and desire that he lived for.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
When you are aware of things that the connection with another person is not recovering in this lifetime, it becomes unbreakable for you. Intimacy is the connection from where you never get recovered.
