The Great Gatsby Quotes

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

Human sympathy has its limits.

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

Whenever you feel like criticzing any one, " he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.

My dark secret is I’ve always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It’s a difficult thing to do.

The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever