The Beautiful and Damned Quotes

“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:lovedreamcare

“two souls are sometimes created together and . . . in love before they're born.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:lovefate

“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:lovelifedeathfight

“unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:lovewomen

“All I think of ever is that I love you”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:love

“life is so damned hard . . . it just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:lifehurting

“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:happinesstruth

“I learned a little of beauty—enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:truthbeauty

“She was dazzling—alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:beautysight

“She was beautiful—but especially she was without mercy.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:beauty