The Beautiful and Damned Quotes

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

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:beauty

“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses—bound for dust—mortal”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:beauty

“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one—the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:beautysoulbody

“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:beautymemory

“I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me you'd better go.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:words

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:worldmeaning

“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost—something's left behind.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:change

“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you—it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:experiencedifficulty

“We all have souls of different ages”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:agesoul

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:desireromance