F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. He was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his turbulent personal life and his famous novel ‘The Great Gatsby.’
During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. F. Scott Fitzgerald received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald died on the 21st of December, 1940 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Below, you will find a collection of popular F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes and sayings.
80 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Life, Love & Beauty
“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 Quote
“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 Quote
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“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 Quote
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“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 Quote
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“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 Quote
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“…and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“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 Quote
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“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 Quote
“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Strange children should smile at each other and say, “Let’s play.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“She was dazzling– alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the “impossible,” come true.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the “impossible,” come true.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I’m a cynical idealist.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kis*sed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kis*sed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. ” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“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 Quote
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“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 Quote
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“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 Quote
“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 Quote
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“It takes two to make an accident.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy — one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about…like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Don’t let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don’t worry about losing your “personality,” as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“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 Quote
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I’m not sentimental–I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last–the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote