Of Love & Loneliness: Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Times of India (2024)

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgeraldreadmore

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradisereadmore

“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.”
― F. Scott Fitzgeraldreadmore

“I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgeraldreadmore

“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradisereadmore

“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
― F. Scott Fitzgeraldreadmore

“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damnedreadmore

“Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Nightreadmore

“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damnedreadmore

“People living alone get used to loneliness.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Nightreadmore

“In crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damnedreadmore

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradisereadmore

“We all have souls of different ages”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damnedreadmore

“Unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damnedreadmore

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsbyreadmore