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.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: loneliness fitzgerald scott f
Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: fitzgerald tender-is-the-night
Spend the glittering moonlight there
Pursuing down the soundless deep
Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair,
Or floating lazy, half-asleep.
Dive and double and follow after,
Snare in flowers, and kiss, and call,
With lips that fade, and human laughter
And faces individual,
Well this side of Paradise! . . .
There's little comfort in the wise.
Tags: poetry literature fitzgerald this-side-of-paradise rupert-brooke tiare-tahiti
The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of themselves in their work. Moreover, literary ambition has a way of turning into literary competition; if fame is the spur, envy may be a concomitant.
Matthew J. BruccoliTags: friendship writers fitzgerald hemingway
In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual «There!» yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: age shallow irony fitzgerald superficial beautiful-and-the-damned
Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: happiness beauty sadness death roses fitzgerald rose
The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to make silver of the slate roof of Dodd and blue the rustling trees. 'You know,' whispered Tom, 'what we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: youth ghosts fitzgerald university campus
You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: friendship fitzgerald the-great-gatsby nick-carroway
You've got an awfully kissable mouth.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: humor love kissing romance kiss relationships lust fitzgerald kissing-quotes flapper
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: love kissing romance kiss lust flirting gatsby fitzgerald kissing-quotes flapper
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