F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Lifestyle Quotes, Casual Quotes

He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Lifestyle Quotes , Casual Quotes

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Light Quotes , Cities Quotes

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stars Quotes , Party Quotes

I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Heart Quotes , Want Quotes

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Country Quotes , Switzerland Quotes

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Forever Quotes , Pockets Quotes

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , God Quotes

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Witty Quotes , Mistake Quotes

He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Dream Quotes , Country Quotes

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Fading Quotes , Want Quotes

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Law Quotes , Broken Quotes

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Men Quotes

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Great Gatsby Gatsby Quotes

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Beer Quotes , Remembers Everything Quotes

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , People Quotes , Novelists Quotes

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Garden Quotes , Insulting Quotes

It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Dream Quotes , Lovers Quotes