More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
