1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

I want to marry Anthony, because husbands are so often ‘husbands’ and I must marry a lover.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

The sun was pouring in, creeping in stealthily lengthening squares across his desk and the litter of papers that strewed it ...

I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.

Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on - I've seen it vanish in a long sickness. But while a personality is active, it overrides 'the next thing.' Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he's done. He's a bar on which a thousand things have been hung — glittering things sometimes, as ours are; but he uses those things with a cold mentality back of them.

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.