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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Total quotes: 56
“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Tagged: His Beautiful Mind, Cute Things To Say To Her
“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.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Change, Seasons
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Summer, Life Anew, Sunshine, Leaves, Trees
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Empathy, See How Other People See, Privilege
“He was in a mess, one of those terrific messes which are ordinary incidents in the life of the poor, which follow poverty like birds of prey. The poor go under or go up or go wrong or even go on, somehow, in a way the poor have.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing
Tagged: Life
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Love, romance, Intimacy
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Tagged: His Beautiful Mind
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Honesty, Most Honest Person, Virute, Cardinal Virtues
“He's one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Bloom Too Early, Youth, Best Is Behind You
“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Tagged: Ideal Lover, Dreams, Dreaming Of You
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Time, Past, Famous Last Lines
“I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Rules, Moral Compass, Desire, Self-Control, Discipline
“And in the end, we were all just humans… Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, via Tumblr
Tagged: humans, humanity, Drunk In Love, Brokenness, My Favorites
“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.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Youth, Growing Up, Teenage Wildlife
“She was dazzling — alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Tagged: Beautiful People, beauty, Elegant, Great Looking, Agony of Beauty, Agony
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great
“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Tagged: His Beautiful Mind
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald: 10 quotes on his birthday
Tagged: Literature, Loneliness, Art
“IN MY YOUNGER and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: first lines of books
“Why don’t you tell me that, ‘if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?'

'No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.'”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Waiting, romance
“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.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
Tagged: Falling Apart, Lonely, Loneliness
“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.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Lonely, Alone, Falling Apart
“Life to me is a series of glistening bazaars with a merchant in front of each one rubbing his hands together and saying 'Patronize this place here. Best bazaar in the world.'”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rags Martin-Jones
Tagged: Life
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Innocence
“Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories
Tagged: Love, Change, Endings, Relationships, Moving On, Breaking Up
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Philosophy, Love, Identity & Self
“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Emotional, Feelings, Strong Emotions, Emotional People, Emo Problems
“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know — because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot. And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Tagged: Loss, From Dust We Come, Losing In A Sense, Getting What You Want
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Yes, I was perhaps an egotist in youth, but I soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Ego, Selfish, Thinking of Yourself
“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
“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits. ”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
Tagged: habits, Love, addict, kiss
“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned: A Twentieth Century Classic
Tagged: Drinking, Alcohol, Optimism
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Personality, Identity, Who We Are, Gesture
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Confusion
“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Yin And Yang, Part and Parcel, beauty, Roses, Flower, Loss
“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Earth, Sun
“When I hear a man proclaiming himself an 'average, honest, open fellow,' I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal—and his protection of being average and honest and open is his way of reminding himself of his misprision.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy
Tagged: Life
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Passion, Falling Out Of Love, Dating
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