F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes about disillusionment
34 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 141 in the full collection. Page 2 of 2.
Civilization’s going to pieces. I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.
What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him.
I married him because I thought he was a gentleman. I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.
By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.
a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....
“I know myself,” he cried, “but that is all.”
Poverty may have been beautiful once, but it’s rotten now. It’s the ugliest thing in the world. It’s essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor.
I’m so happy that I’m frightened. Wouldn’t it be awful if this was—was the high point?...
I’m restless. My whole generation is restless. I’m sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.
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