More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the 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. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
