"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
SadView Quote
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.“
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
posted in Time
Other Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Discover more inspiring quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
GreatView Quote
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
ValentinesdayView Quote
"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
MorningView Quote
"I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
RomanticView Quote
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
RespectView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
-Groucho Marx
TimeView Quote
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
-Bertrand Russell
TimeView Quote
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
-Mark Twain
TimeView Quote
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
-Maya Angelou
TimeView Quote
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
-Tom Robbins
TimeView Quote
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
TimeView Quote