Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

I feel there's everything to do yet.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.

I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

A negative is never finished.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.