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11. “At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loneliness, Urban Life, Observation, Empathy, Human Condition
14. “This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Decay, Desolation, Imagery, Social Critique, Human Condition
18. “How strange to have failed as a social creature – even criminals do not fail that way – they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Insanity, Social Isolation, Human Condition, Mental Health, Alienation
Human Condition Quotes by Famous Authors
11. “At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Loneliness, Urban Life, Observation, Empathy, Human Condition
14. “This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Decay, Desolation, Imagery, Social Critique, Human Condition
18. “How strange to have failed as a social creature – even criminals do not fail that way – they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Insanity, Social Isolation, Human Condition, Mental Health, Alienation
