Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

“Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.”

“She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.”

“All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself”

“The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.”

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

“I dont' want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.”

“I’m so damn glad I love you – I wouldn’t love any other man on earth – I b’lieve if I had deliberately decided on a sweetheart, he’d have been you.”

“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”

“I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.”

“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”

“I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.”

“Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I’ll save you too.”

“isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?”

“The night you gave me my birthday party… you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.”

“By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.”

“Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.”

“There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.”

“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.”

“Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?”

“memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for”

“Death is the only real elegance.”

“Nothing could have survived our life.”

“I play the radio and moon about… and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.”

“Father said conflict develops the character”

“My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.”

“And only weaklings… who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.”

“Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.”

“People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.”

“A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.”

“Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.”