Love F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale
and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

These people could appreciate me and take me for granted, and these men would fall in love with me and admire me, whereas the clever men I meet would just analyse me and tell me I'm this because of this or that because of that. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."
Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
You always look so cool," she repeated.
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

She's got an indiscreet voice,' I remarked. 'It's full of - - ' I hesitated. 'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The careless violins and saxophones, the shrill rasping complaint of a child near by, the voice of the violet-hatted girl at the next table, all moved slowly out, receded, and fell away like shadowy reflections on the shining floor - and they two, it seemed to him, were alone and infinitely remote, quiet. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

He was consumed with wonder by her presence. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Their eyes met, locked, became wistful, and dreamy and beautiful. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.'
'But I don't want to argue. I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I want to do everything in the world with you. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

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

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

He waited rather breathlessly for her next remark... ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

But, knowing they had had the best of love, they clung to what remained. Love lingered – by way of long conversations at night into those stark hours when the mind thins and sharpens and the borrowings from dreams become the stuff of all life. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always
the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Softly the two names lingered on the air, died away more slowly than other words, other names, slower than music in the mind. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Murder your darlings. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of the city itself, even though she was gone from it, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [ ... ] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Fatigue was a drug as well as a poison, and Stahr apparently derived some rare almost physical pleasure from working lightheaded with weariness. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The college dreamed on
awake. He felt a nervous excitement that might have been the very throb of its slow heart. It was a stream where he was to throw a stone whose faint ripple would be vanishing almost as it left his hand. As yet he had nothing, he had taken nothing. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.
It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Do you think I leapt at this pessimism, grasped it as sweetly smug superior thing. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I DON'T WANT TO REPEAT MY INNOCENCE.
I JUST WANT THE PLEASURE OF LOSING IT AGAIN."

Excerpt From: Kunze, Lauren. "The Ivy." HarperCollins. iBooks. F Scott Fitzgerald ~ Lauren Kunze

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Talk English to me, Tommy.
Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole.
But the meanings are different
in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

He never had time to read on the outside, but here he joins a book club where they discuss The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is The Night with a fervent young professor who seems unaware that anyone other than F. Scott Fitzgerald has ever written a book. ~ Emily St. John Mandel

You seem to be bankrupt - morally as well as financially ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

They were a party of three on horseback ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Collis, unaware that he was without a wedding garment, heralded his arrival with: I reckon I'm late
the beyed has flown. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

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

They conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The cool bathed his eyes and slowed the flight of time-time, that had crept so insidiously through the lazy April afternoons, seemed so intangible in the long spring twilights. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair ... Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

What was in the bags?" she asked softly.
"Florida mud," he answered. "That was one of two true things I told you. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy
it increased her value in his eyes. He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Everything that begins, begins with blood. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

You should have risen above it," I said smugly. "It's not a slam at you when people are rude
it's a slam at the people they've met before. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation. ~ Gertrude Stein

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go and take it
and not get caught. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

What was it? Why won't you tell me?"
"I don't want to break down your illusions."
"My dear man, I have no illusions about you."
"I mean illusions about yourself. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

He had never met a girl like this before - she would never seem quite the same again. He didn't at all feel like a character in a play, the appropriate feeling in an unconventional situation - instead, he had a sense of coming home. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

There was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

There are four types of husbands.
The husband who always wants to stay in in the evening, has no vices and works for a salary. Totally undesirable!
The atavistic master whose mistress one is, to wait on his pleasure. This sort always considers every pretty woman "shallow," a sort of peacock with arrested development.
Next comes the worshiper, the idolaters of his wife and all that is his, to the utter oblivion of everything else. This sort demands an emotional actress for a wife. God! It must be an exertion to be thought righteous!
And Anthony - a temporarily passionate lover with wisdom enough to realize when it has flown and that it must fly. And I want to get married to Anthony. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

He was born sleepless, without a talent for rest or the desire for it. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald