F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes about Desire

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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dust, Hands, Desire

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.411, e-artnow

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Boredom, Hatred, Desire

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.207, e-artnow

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Moving, Desire, Trying

These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Light, Shining, Desire

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thinking, Desire, Great Gatsby Love

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Desire, Want, Rooms

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Desire, Sitting Down, Down And

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.8, Pelekanos Books

F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes about Desire

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