F. Scott Fitzgerald: Quotes about the world

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“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Variant: The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)

“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. 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. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

Source: The Last Tycoon

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Freshest Boy

Quoted, Short Stories
Source: The Freshest Boy

“You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not… No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

--The Sensible Thing”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Short Stories

“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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