Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

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

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

You can stroke people with words.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.