The Great Gatsby Quotes

Human sympathy has its limits.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

My own rule is to let everything alone.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.

~ Helen Gardner

My dark secret is I’ve always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It’s a difficult thing to do.

~ Sarah Noffke

Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald