Happiness Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Is kissing you generally considered a joyful affair?" -”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

— 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…

— 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…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Another sigh came from the window-- quite a resigned sigh. 'She's life and hope and happiness, my whole world now.' He felt…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Each life unfulfilled, you see,       It hangs still, patchy and scrappy;     We have not sighed deep, laughed free,       Starved,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment…

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“I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I reached maturity under the impression that I was gathering the experience to order my life for happiness. Indeed, I accomplished the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You and I have been happy; we haven't been happy just once, we've been happy a thousand times. . . Forget the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that…

— 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…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“As I went over to say good-by I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Had they nothing else to say to each other? Yet their eyes were full of more serious statements; and while they sought…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the…

— 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…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald