Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald

But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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.

Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want