F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes — Page 30

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Hopeful

“After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.”

People Time Youth

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

Calm

“They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”

Together Air Unhappy

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Angry

“Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember”

Remember Great Gatsby Love

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Love

“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.”

America Paris

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Hopeful

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”

Men Lasts Faces

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Melancholic

“You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”

Past Great Gatsby Love Great Gatsby American Dream

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Funny

“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”

Literature Quitting

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Thoughtful

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.”

Literature Virtue

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Spiritual

“It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.”

Men Sleep Insomnia

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Nostalgic

“He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”

Ideas Past Gone

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Creative

“It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”

Believe Reassurance Great Gatsby Book

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Melancholic

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

Men Dream Dust

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