Youth Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Nothing had ever felt so young as her lips.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was remembering too vividly the youth and freshness of her lips.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.' 'How pleasant then to be insane!”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is…

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Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and…

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“The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little and watched the moon…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they…

— 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 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

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to…

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When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two years in Minneapolis - these…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald