--- title: "18 Found Quotes By F. Scott Fitzgerald" description: "18 Found quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Plus more from F. Scott Fitzgerald and more Found sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbd/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_disappeared_people-disappeared-reappeared-made-plans_2932056.jpg" --- > [People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/people-disappeared-reappeared-made-plans-to-go-somewhere-and-then/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbd/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_disappeared_people-disappeared-reappeared-made-plans_2932056.jpg) > [Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/was-it-the-infinite-sadness-of-her-eyes-that-drew-him-or-the-mirror/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e8/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_clarity_was-it-the-infinite-sadness-of-her-eyes_1467023.jpg) > [he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/he-found-what-a-grotesque-thing-a-rose-is-and-how-raw-the-sunlight/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f9/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_flowers_he-found-what-a-grotesque-thing-a-rose-i_1409810.jpg) > [I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/i-found-something-courage-just-that-courage-as-a-rule-of-life-and/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/241/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_courage_i-found-something-courage-just-that-cour_14941.jpg) > [He's a bootlegger…One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/he-s-a-bootlegger-one-time-he-killed-a-man-who-found-out-that-he-was/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_cousin_he-s-a-bootlegger-one-time-he-killed-a-m_3056115.jpg) > [i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/i-was-perhaps-an-egotist-in-youth-but-i-soon-found-it-made-me-morbid/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70c/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_found_i-was-perhaps-an-egotist-in-youth-but-i_1666040.jpg) > [It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/it-was-testimony-to-the-romantic-speculation-he-inspired-that-there/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae3/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_found_it-was-testimony-to-the-romantic-specula_1226390.jpg) > [My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/my-generation-of-radicals-and-breakers-down-never-found-anything-to/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1c/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_character_my-generation-of-radicals-and-breakers-d_247456.jpg) > [Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/progress-was-a-labyrinth-people-plunging-blindly-in-and-then-rushing/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ac/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_book_progress-was-a-labyrinth-people-plunging_2703115.jpg) > [Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/then-she-added-in-a-sort-of-childish-delight-we-ll-be-poor-won-t-we/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f8/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_book_then-she-added-in-a-sort-of-childish-del_2652263.jpg) > [Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/long-afterward-amory-thought-of-sophomore-spring-as-the-happiest-time/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_afternoon_long-afterward-amory-thought-of-sophomor_550698.jpg) > [I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/i-learned-a-little-of-beauty-enough-to-know-that-it-had-nothing-to-do-2/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_beauty_i-learned-a-little-of-beauty-enough-to-k_2727201.jpg) > [Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/her-face-was-sad-and-lovely-with-bright-things-in-it-bright-eyes-and/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73f/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_bright-eyes_her-face-was-sad-and-lovely-with-bright_87970.jpg) > [If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/if-you-have-anything-to-say-anything-you-feel-nobody-has-ever-said/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8e/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_feels_if-you-have-anything-to-say-anything-you_1300492.jpg) > [“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/if-that-was-true-he-must-have-felt-that-he-had-lost-the-old-warm-2/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_air_if-that-was-true-he-must-have-felt-that_2233429.jpg) > [He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/he-found-himself-remembering-how-on-one-summer-morning-they-two-had/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40e/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_becoming_he-found-himself-remembering-how-on-one_2352166.jpg) > [Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/having-once-found-the-intensity-of-art-nothing-else-that-can-happen/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68c/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_art_having-once-found-the-intensity-of-art-n_3224400.jpg) > [It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/it-was-strange-to-have-no-self-to-be-like-a-little-boy-left-alone-in/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_big-houses_it-was-strange-to-have-no-self-to-be-lik_527636.jpg) ## Other authors on Found ## More by F. Scott Fitzgerald > [“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/his-dream-must-have-seemed-so-close-that-he-could-hardly-fail-to/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/there-was-a-ripe-mystery-about-it-a-hint-of-bedrooms-upstairs-more/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/i-want-you-to-take-a-red-hot-bath-as-hot-as-you-can-bear-it-and-just/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/tireless-passion-fierce-jealousy-longing-to-possess-and-crush-these/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/i-found-something-courage-just-that-courage-as-a-rule-of-life-and/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [“Life is a series of successful gestures...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/life-is-a-series-of-successful-gestures/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/another-dawn-flung-itself-across-the-river-a-belated-taxi-hurried/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/she-plucked-a-twig-and-broke-it-but-she-found-no-spring-in-it/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/i-m-one-of-those-people-who-go-through-the-world-giving-other-people/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-montana-sunset-lay-between-the-mountains-like-a-giant-bruise-from/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [“You loved me too?" he repeated.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/you-loved-me-too-he-repeated/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/he-was-good-looking-sort-of-distinguished-when-he-wants-to-be-had-a/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/what-are-you-going-to-do-can-t-say-run-for-president-write-greenwich/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-latter-was-considered-a-good-fellow-and-a-fine-leader-until-a/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) > [“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/it-eluded-us-then-but-that-s-no-matter-tomorrow-we-will-run-faster/) [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/found/f-scott-fitzgerald/#itemlist", "name": "18 Found Quotes By F. 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