“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind." by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

Related quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“Human sympathy has its limits.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Blaise Pascal photo

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

Tim McGraw photo

“Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”

Mary Stewart book The Hollow Hills

Source: The Hollow Hills

David Fleming photo

“Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.”

David Fleming (1940–2010) British activist

Quoted in Resurgence magazine, issue 236 (June 2006) http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article408-BUILDING-MILES.html

David Foster Wallace photo

“It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar photo

“We were all at one time in darkness and we sought the eternal light and the enlightened ones among us got that light. The light that we got is not merely the light of intellectual illumination that Diogenes referred to, but also the light of ethical perfection, a better set of morals, a higher code of ethics and better living standards based on charity, helpfulness and sympathy.”

Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919–1974) Indian writer

In his address to the members of the Masonic Fraternity on the occassion of his joining as member of the Masonic Lodge. quoted in "Article # 14 Initiate responds to his Toast R.W.Bro. Jaya Chamaraja Wadeyar".

Robert A. Heinlein photo

“All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.”

Alfred Bunn (1796–1860) British businessman, librettist

The Maid of Artois (1836) set to music by Michael William Balfe. Compare: "Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed", Thomas Moore, Oft in the Stilly Night.

Peter Greenaway photo

“Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and de-limited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules, and games we call Civilisation … the rules and the games are often absurd and farcical -- sometimes they are tragic -- yet we tacitly acknowledge that they are necessary.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

Fear of Drowning By Numbers

Related topics