F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes
Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. 
The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. 
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. 
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. 
Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. 
People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. 
You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me. 
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. 
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy. 
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't. 
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand. F. Scott Fitzgerald Short quotes ⇑
Short Quotes
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. 
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. 
All F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes ⇑
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!
Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known-and even that is an understatement.
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him
Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires