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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Total quotes: 204
“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Love, Distraction, Ambition, Desire
“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself, and laissez-faire for others.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Philosophy, Beliefs, Carpe Diem
“It’s all so simple. He loved me and I loved him. That’s all there is.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Miscellaneous Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald- Delphi Classics (Illustrated) (Delphi Parts Edition (F. Scott Fitzgerald))
Tagged: True Love, love quotes, deep affection
“I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays
Tagged: Excitement, What Makes Your Heart Pound
“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Tagged: His Beautiful Mind, Cute Things To Say To Her
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Growing Up, Youth, Exposure, Knowledge
“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: found, lost
“You’re trying to leave yourself behind, but you can’t. The more you try to run away from yourself, the more you’ll have yourself with you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays
Tagged: Running Away From Problems, Leaving, Sorrow
“You intoxicated me. It was just as though you were making me love you by some invisible force.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Myra Meets His Family
Tagged: love quotes, Romantic Message
“He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Tagged: Desire To Be Wanted, Needing Acceptance From Others
“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
Tagged: Life, Dream, Dreams, Dreams Die, Gone, gone dream
“‘But I like you.’ He cleared his throat. ‘I like you first and second and third.’”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Love Quote, Sweet Gestures, Confession of Love, Romantic, Intimacy
“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
Tagged: Existence, Perspective, Life
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known, but even that is an understatement.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters: A New Collection
Tagged: Love, romance, compliments, sweet, sweet confinement, Sweet Message, Ways To Say I Love You
“You know I’m old in some ways-in others-well, I’m just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Passion, Self-awareness
“You are mysterious. I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Porcelain and Pink
Tagged: Love, romance
“So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That’s an old-fashioned idea, isn’t it?”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Tagged: Love, emotions
“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Tagged: Existence, importance in others' lives, Self Care, Self-Worth, value in others, Worthiness, Worth It, Empowering
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: realizations, Life
“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Tagged: Writing, Ideas
“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tagged: Words, Love
“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want anyone to know.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: admiration, Love, Secret, selfishness, romance
“I love you so much, much, much that it just hurts every minute I’m without you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda: A Biography
Tagged: Missing Someone, Love, Romantic, Sweet Messages
“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Love, romance, Courtship, Dating
“The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing
Tagged: Love, Intimacy, romance, Sweet Gestures
“Sweetheart I’ve been frightfully busy, but you know I have thought of you every minute.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Tagged: thoughtful, Love, caring, Time
“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth – but there was an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: she, Attraction, affection, Love
“People fall in and out of love all the time, don’t they? I wonder how they manage it.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald: The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western(The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tagged: Falling In Love, Love, admiration, affection
“I once imagined you loved me a little bit, if you’ll excuse the presumption.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Majesty
Tagged: Imagine, Love, Presumption
“You loved me the other day. You wanted me to sit beside you in the dark. Didn’t I feel it- didn’t I know? There’s something between us- a sort of pull. Something you always do to me and I to you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Miscellaneous Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald- Delphi Classics (Illustrated) (Delphi Parts Edition (F. Scott Fitzgerald))
Tagged: Love, romance, Closeness, Intimacy
“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Tagged: realization, Life passing by, Regrets, Gone
“It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
Tagged: Sad, Thoughts, worries
“No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Life in Letters(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Sadness, Despair, Struggle, Survival
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Tagged: Sadness, Pain, beauty, Reflection
“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Change, Seasons
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Summer, Life Anew, Sunshine, Leaves, Trees
“I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Tagged: Love, romance, Unconditional Love
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Strangers, Forgetting, Moving On, Letting Go
“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
Tagged: Love
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