Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 6)

“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”

“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”

“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”

“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”

“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.”

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”

“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

--The Sensible Thing”

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”

“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase— 'I love you.”

“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”

“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.”

“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.”

“An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”