Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

I love you, even if there isn't any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

One illusion is as good as another.

We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.

There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

I do not want to live.
I want to love and then to live,
incidentally.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

And only weaklings ... who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow? Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.

I play the radio and moon about ... and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself.

We quarreled in the gray morning dew about morals; and made up over a red bathing suit.

I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

Paris is a pen-and-ink drawing before nine o'clock.

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!

Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better.

Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump ...

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

Death is the only real elegance.

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.

Nothing could have survived our life.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did.

Father said conflict develops the character

Isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.