27 Quotes Tagged: fitzgerald

I found something! Courage — just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

The price for his intactness was incompleteness.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.

If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.'
'But I don't want to argue. I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue.

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

My courage is faith — faith in the eternal resilience of me — that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide — not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often — and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want — not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable...'very few things matter and nothing matters very much

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.