21 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes That Prove He Was The Original 20-Something

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

By

“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but — well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy — one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
“I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
“And in the end, we were all just humans… Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.”
“Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can’t. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.”
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
“You’ll find another.’ God! Banish the thought. Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you’? No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.”
“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
“It is not life that’s complicated, it’s the struggle to guide and control life.”
“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.” Thought Catalog Logo Mark
image – Amazon