Unknown Quote by Scott Fitzgerald

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would…

— Cassandra Clare

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that…

— Edith Wharton

and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms,…

— Virginia Woolf

He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else,…

— Michael Cunningham

“But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have…

— Cassandra Clare

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable…

— Henry James

“All these were things he could not want, because they were the things he could not have, and wanting you could not have led…

— Cassandra Clare

“To be distinguished for elegance and accomplishments—the authorised object of their youth—could have had no useful influence that way, no moral effect on the…

— Jane Austen

“He wanted and needed their love, but felt none towards them. He now had neither love nor humility nor purity”

— Leo Tolstoy

“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with the appearance…

— Josephine Humphreys

“There was a leap of joy in him, like a flame lighting up in a dark lantern. At this moment he believed it was…

— Elizabeth Goudge