“We'll all be failures?" "Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She seems hopeful and normally hungry for life — even rather romantic.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“But after dark all that is most satisfactory in French life swims back into the picture—the sprightly tarts, the men arguing with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Benjamin discovered that he was becoming more and more attracted by the gay side of life. It” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
