F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trending quotes

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

Source: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 7

“Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”

Variant: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Source: Tender Is the Night

“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”

Source: The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Diamond As Big As The Ritz"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”

“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”

“People living alone get used to loneliness.”

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.”

Source: Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald book May Day

Source: May Day

“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”

Source: Tender Is the Night

“He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.”

Source: Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Tender is the Night

“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here”

“A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.”

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”

Source: The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”