17 Quotes From Fitzgerald’s Darkest Book “The Beautiful & The Damned”

17 quotes

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything.

“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Drinking, Booz, Drunk!

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Nihilism

“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. And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Desire

“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Lessons

“All I think of ever is that I love you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Soul

“She was dazzling. It was agony to comprehend her beauty.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Beauty Is Terror, Agony of Beauty, Your Beauty Hurts

“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contem…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Soul

“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Pain of Living

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Pain of Living

“We all have souls of different ages.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Pain of Living

“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams

“Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Lessons

“And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something e…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Lessons

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Words Are Not Enough, Show Me Don't Tell Me You Love Me

“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less moth-eaten man who grinds an organ—and once he was an organ-gr…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Twenties, 20-Somethings

“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Pain of Living

“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, Never Again