Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
ZELDA FITZGERALDAnything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
-
-
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
There’s nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn’t quite because we were too smart for them!
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
ZELDA FITZGERALD