More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.
the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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.
When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.
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.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
