F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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“Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?”

“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”

“We all have souls of different ages”

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”

“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”

“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation – the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

“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.”

“So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.”

“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”

“mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.”

“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”

“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.”

“Thirty — the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.”

“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.”

“The rich get richer and the poor get - children.”

“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”

“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.”

“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”

“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth…”

“All I think of ever is that I love you.”

“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”

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

“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal”

“They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.”

“I want to be a society vampire, you see.”