Tender Is the Night Quotes

“New friends . . . can often have a better time together than old friends.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

topic:friendship

“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

topic:pain pleasure

“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

topic:society woman

“people living alone get used to loneliness.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

topic:loneliness

“The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

topic:memory past

“Strange children should smile at each other and say, 'Let's play.'”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“He sat down on the bed, breathing and staring; thinking first the old selfish child's thought that comes with the death of a parent, how will it affect me now that this earliest and strongest of protections is gone?”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“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. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

topic:suffering

“I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

topic:feeling

“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.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

topic:feelings vanity respect

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