Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

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.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.