F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Life is a very emotional experience.

I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

I love thee, and it is my love that speaks

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.