Great Gatsby Gatsby Quotes

• There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Passion, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.57, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Quality, World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “O Grande Gatsby: The Great Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.174, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Men, Dust

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• ...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eye, Thinking, House

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “The Great Gatsby”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Girl

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Years, Advice

  Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 1

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• I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, People, Confusion

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Great Gatsby Book, Conviction

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Past, Ideas, Gone

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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• I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Loneliness, Night, Feeling Lonely

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Listening, Tuning

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.85, Atlântico Press

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• This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Men, Garden

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.393, Book House

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• He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Garden, Years, Afternoon

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.105, Broadview Press

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• And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Sunshine, Tree

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.481, e-artnow

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• His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Green Lights, Docks

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dishonesty, Blame, Great Gatsby Love

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.40, e-artnow

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• People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Feet, People, Great Gatsby Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.28, e-artnow

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• I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Forgiving, Done, Saws

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.110, e-artnow

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• In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Stars, Men

  Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 3

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• Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Important

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “The Great Gatsby”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Literature, Virtue, Great Gatsby Book

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Forever, Mind

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Book, Drunk, Library

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.37, Atlântico Press

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• I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Light, Long

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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