Top 64 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.