Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

Human sympathy has its limits.

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

There's a loneliness that only exists in one's mind. The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can! He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.' 'How pleasant then to be insane!

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.