Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThey slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
-
-
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
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 -
We all have souls of different ages.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
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 -
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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 -
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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 -
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
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 -
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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 -
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
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 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