F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes about loneliness

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.

You’re not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

I’m one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven’t the patience to write books; and I never met a man I’d marry. However, I’m only eighteen.