F. Scott Fitzgerald: Quotes about life

F. Scott Fitzgerald was American novelist and screenwriter. Explore interesting quotes on life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: 822 quotes49 likes

“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Notebook E, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945)
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)

“In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Lees of Happiness"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

“"Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular — I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Jelly-Bean"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)