The quotations of

F. Scott Fitzgerald

American writer

1896–1940

32 quotes, most often on Money, Time and Experience.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IVIn context
- Beauty
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IVIn context
- Motivation & Goals
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIn context
- Love
The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIn context
- Character
“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIn context
- Hope
- Time
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIn context
- Love
Her voice is full of money
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
- Money
- Women
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
- Health
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
- Intelligence
Thirty⁠—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
- Age
They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Friendship
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Hope
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Friendship
- Life & Death
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
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Money
- Responsibility
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter⁠—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further … And one fine morning —
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Hope
- Time

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