“Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,'… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“As he put in his studs he realized that he was enjoying life as he would probably never enjoy it again. Everything… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the… — 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
