Tender Is The Night Quotes by David Nicholls, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Keats, Joyce Carol Oates and many others.
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love ‘Tender is the Night,’ and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don’t call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
When you’re older you’ll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It’s better to be cold and young than to love. It’s happened to me before but never like this – so accidental – just when everything was going well.
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . .
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life – it can be a superabundance of interest.
was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music–do I wake or sleep?
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought ‘The Fable’ was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked ‘Tender Is the Night,’ an experimental novel.
