So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — Unknown
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. — J. R. R. Tolkien
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret. — Alexander Theroux
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. — James Joyce
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens
Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines. — Claude McKay
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music — John Lithgow
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. — Joni Mitchell
World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night. — Drake
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. — John Steinbeck
The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier. — Antal Szerb
The gull sees farthest who flies highest — Richard Bach
Short Gatsby Quotes
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby Image Quotes
Great Gatsby Gatsby Quotes
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby Love Quotes
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can! — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby Love Quotes
They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. — Tom Perrotta
...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does. — Andrew Davies
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. — Rob Sheffield
Great Gatsby Book Quotes
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. — Henry Rollins
Great Gatsby Important Quotes
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning --- — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. — Francis Ford Coppola
In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. — Sarah Vowell
I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway] — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult. — Leonardo DiCaprio
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