Quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald

About Zelda Fitzgerald:

Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, dancer, socialite, and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she became an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband "the first American Flapper." After the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), the Fitzgeralds became celebrities.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

Zelda Fitzgerald

. . . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.

Zelda Fitzgerald

The macabre who lived through the war have a story they loved to tell about the soldiers of the Foreign Legion giving a ball in the expanses around Verdun and dancing with the corpses. Alabama's continued brewing of the poisoned filter for a semicons...

Zelda Fitzgerald

She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstat...

Zelda Fitzgerald

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

Zelda Fitzgerald

It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threa...

Zelda Fitzgerald

A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.

Zelda Fitzgerald

David, I’ll fly for you, if you’ll love me!” “Fly, then.” “I can’t fly, but love me anyway.” “Poor wingless child!” “Is it so hard to love me?” “Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?

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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

Zelda Fitzgerald

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Zelda Fitzgerald

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

Zelda Fitzgerald

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

Zelda Fitzgerald

With adolescent Nietzscheanism, she already planned to escape on the world's reversals from the sense of suffocation that seemed to her to be eclipsing her family, her sisters, and mother. She, she told herself, would move brightly along high places ...

Zelda Fitzgerald

My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Author Bio

  • NameZelda Fitzgerald
  • DescriptionNovelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • BornJuly 24, 1900
  • DiedMarch 10, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist; Poet; Autobiographer