Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Transience, Growth, Limitations, Human Condition
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More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
“This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adulthood, Pessimism, Human Condition, Consciousness, Philosophy
F. Scott Fitzgerald Adulthood, Pessimism, Human Condition, Consciousness, Philosophy“Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcohol, Self-perception, Coping Mechanism, Advice, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Alcohol, Self-perception, Coping Mechanism, Advice, Human Nature“No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Honesty, Human Nature, Cynicism, Truth, Metaphor
F. Scott Fitzgerald Honesty, Human Nature, Cynicism, Truth, Metaphor“Shakespeare – whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Shakespeare, Literature, Reading Experience, Emotion, Intellectual Stimulation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Shakespeare, Literature, Reading Experience, Emotion, Intellectual Stimulation“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Attraction, Nature Metaphor, Perception, Compliment
F. Scott Fitzgerald Beauty, Attraction, Nature Metaphor, Perception, Compliment“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Selfishness, Love, Human Nature, Contradiction, Relationships
F. Scott Fitzgerald Selfishness, Love, Human Nature, Contradiction, Relationships“Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Secrets, Emotions, Hidden Feelings, Metaphor, Letting Go
F. Scott Fitzgerald Secrets, Emotions, Hidden Feelings, Metaphor, Letting Go“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wanderlust, Escape, Sadness, Human Connection, Coping Mechanism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Wanderlust, Escape, Sadness, Human Connection, Coping Mechanism“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth, Nostalgia, Experience, Desire, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Youth, Nostalgia, Experience, Desire, Human Nature“The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcohol, Cultural Comparison, Routine, Acceptance, Lifestyle
F. Scott Fitzgerald Alcohol, Cultural Comparison, Routine, Acceptance, Lifestyle“Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; 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.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature, Progress, Human Ambition, Wonder, American Dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald Nature, Progress, Human Ambition, Wonder, American Dream“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imagination, Reality, Fantasy, Escape, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Imagination, Reality, Fantasy, Escape, Human Nature“So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Desperation, Intensity, Relationships, Existence
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Desperation, Intensity, Relationships, Existence“Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge, anything at all.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Possibility, Change, Hope, Future, Transition
F. Scott Fitzgerald Possibility, Change, Hope, Future, Transition“I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Restlessness, Fear Of Stagnation, Adventure, Love, Domesticity
F. Scott Fitzgerald Restlessness, Fear Of Stagnation, Adventure, Love, Domesticity“Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of rightness as if it had been a natural all along.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Change, Self-justification, Human Nature, Perception, Direction
F. Scott Fitzgerald Change, Self-justification, Human Nature, Perception, Direction“It was Sunday – not a day, but rather a gap between two other days.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time, Perception, Routine, Reflection, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Time, Perception, Routine, Reflection, Observation“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Success, Youth, Romanticism, Life Perspective, Optimism
F. Scott Fitzgerald Success, Youth, Romanticism, Life Perspective, Optimism