Desire Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he was safe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“At the time I made a decision, a sensible one, in which love might or might not have had a role to play. What…

— Mehreen Ahmed

“As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see that this…

— Ivan Goncharov

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction…

— Lorrie Moore

“The window of opportunity to plan and prepare for the end of his life had closed gradually. Any cracks left open to talk candidly…

— Lisa J. Shultz

“...there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“If the one thing was right, everything elses must surely be right; the thing was axiomatic. It was true that happiness had often to…

— Dorothy Sayers

“He was surprised to find that beyond his puzzlement he had few misgivings, and none at all on his own behalf. There were moments…

— James Hilton