F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.

I always have felt that I was six years old.

It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.

Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children grow up, they start to realize that they're not as powerful as they thought and that they need other people in order survive. Then the child begins to love and to hope his love will be requited; and as life goes on, he develops an ever-greater need to be loved in return, even if that means having to give up his power. We all end up where we are now: Grown-ups doing everything we can to be accepted and loved.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?

Sorrow makes us all children again.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

Men are kids at heart. They want to be nourished and pet like a dog.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

I am the pedophiles dream, a messianic Peter Pan.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.

Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.