The best Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

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.

He looked at her the way all women wanted to be looked at by a man.

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.

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

Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Gatsby turned out all right in the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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

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

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love "Tender is the Night," and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss

It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.

We're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything.