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.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

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

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

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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

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

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

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

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

Human sympathy has its limits.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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

I wouldn't ask too much of her, ' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!

I wouldn't ask too much of her, " I ventured. "You can't change the past.""Can't change the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

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.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

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

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.

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

In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.

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

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