Moon Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

16 Moon quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald’s lines often pair the moon with a sense of fleeting glamour and wistful reflection. Across sixteen brief excerpts, his prose and poetry echo the bittersweet mood of an era chasing dreams.

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“It had seemed as close as a star to the moon.”

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“Was everyone followed in the moonlight?”

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

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“Wilson’s glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in…

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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close…

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I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they…

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“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon,…

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then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the…

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The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of…

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taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor.…

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For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills…

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It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It…

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Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of…

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If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light…

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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…

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I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face…

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“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

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“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…

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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“You loved me too?" he repeated.”

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“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up…

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