Incredible F. Scotts Fitzgerald Quotes

One should be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Trouble is when you’re sober you don’t want to see anybody, and when you’re tight nobody wants to see you.

The things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes

All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase.

There was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling

People fall in and out of love all the time.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.

We never forgive those we can understand. We can only forgive those who wound us for no reason at all

The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshiping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves.

The sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything.

Courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.