1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

Have a drink Tom and then you won’t feel so foolish to yourself.

It is not life that’s complicated, it’s the struggle to guide and control life.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Love is fragile – she was thinking – but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken” –.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you – like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist – or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.