Zitate von Zelda Fitzgerald

„All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

Variante: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.

„She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

Variante: She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring." -Zelda Fitzgerald
Quelle: The Collected Writings

„I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald, buch Save Me the Waltz

Variante: But I warn you, I am only really myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
Quelle: Save Me the Waltz

„It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I’ll save you too.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

Quelle: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

„isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald, buch Save Me the Waltz

Quelle: Save Me the Waltz

„without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„The night you gave me my birthday party… you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald, buch Save Me the Waltz

Quelle: Save Me the Waltz

„I love you anyway-even if there isn't any me or any love or even any life-
I love you.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

Variante: I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
Quelle: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

„By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald, buch Save Me the Waltz

Quelle: Save Me the Waltz

„We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

„I dont' want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.“

—  Zelda Fitzgerald

Variante: I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.
Quelle: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald