F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires
A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
