Fitzgerald Quotes – Wisdom and Reflections from a Literary Master

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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

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

Family is the most important thing in the world, but sometimes it can also be the most frustrating thing.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair, but in the way she carries her sadness with grace and dignity.

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

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.

I hate careless people. That’s why I like you.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Youth is not an age; it is a state of mind.

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

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful for the way she thought.

Reserving judgment is a matter of infinite hope.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect.

You can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!

Fitzgerald Quotes – Wisdom and Reflections from a Literary Master part 2

I don’t want to live. I want to love first and live incidentally.

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.

I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us, and new beauty waiting to be born.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

You needn’t be a magician, Madame, to know the shape of the future. But you are magic.

Nothing any good isn’t hard.

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

It’s not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am tonight.

I was drawn to her like a moth to a flame. She was so out of reach yet so irresistible.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.

Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.

An uncut diamond is flawed and never fully polished, but it still possesses a unique beauty.