It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThat 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
-
-
Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
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 -
So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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 -
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Never confuse activity with action.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD