F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Dream Quotes, Pain Quotes

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Rain Quotes , Blessed Quotes

We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Fundamentals Quotes , Birth Quotes

The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Girl Quotes , Running Quotes

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Giving Quotes , Trying Quotes

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Intellectual 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

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Two Quotes , Loving You Quotes

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Relief Quotes , Tension Quotes

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Trying Quotes , Here And There Quotes

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Rose Quotes

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Tired Quotes

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Adults Quotes

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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