Mind Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was born sleepless, without a talent for rest or the desire for it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The price for his intactness was incompleteness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He cared only about people; he was scarcely conscious of places except for their weather, until they had been invested with color…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A man does not recover from such jolts-- he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new person finds new things to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“But Dick had come away for his soul's sake, and he began thinking about that. He had lost himself--he could not tell…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read"…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is…

— 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

“He shut the door and coming back into the room stood for a moment lost in thought with the tennis ball still…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they were for himself now. He did not…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was not so much fun. His work became confused with Nicole’s problems; in addition, her income had increased so fast of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The immediate contingency overtook him, pulling him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald