Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Frases em inglês

“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.”

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

“I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two… Or three but that had never
stopped me from loving you.”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”

“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. 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 favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

“She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.”

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”

“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”

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

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”