Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and Short story writer. I hope my collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes will inspire you for a better life.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
– F Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
1. “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 Fitzgerald
2. “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. “You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. “There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. “Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. “Optimism is the content of small men in high places.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. “Action is character.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. “The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. “Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. “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.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. “Great books write themselves; only bad books have to be written.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. “The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. “A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. “You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
22. “Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. “Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. “A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. “It is not life that’s complicated, it’s the struggle to guide and control life.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. “Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. “Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. “What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. “It takes two to make an accident.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. “The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. “I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. “To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. “Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. “I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. “Just think how it would be if every one else looked at things as you do – what would the world be like?” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. “Weak things were often beautiful, weak things were never good.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. “I know myself . . . but that is all.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. “There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. “New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
