F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

F Scott Fitzgerald Quote of the day

Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he would dream one of his favorites waking dreams.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

Human sympathy has its limits.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

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

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.

I found something! Courage--just that

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

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

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

There was not a moving up into vacated places