F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes about hope
13 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.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further … And one fine morning—
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
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 favour.
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing.
And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world.
“Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge,” I thought; “anything at all …”
Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
One thing I know. If living isn’t a seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.
Don’t let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself
From the books
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- The Great Gatsby quotes · 87 lines (1925)
- This Side of Paradise quotes · 38 lines (1920)
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