Quotes about Desire
He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He wanted a world that was like walking through rain
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Not only for that night but for the days and weeks that followed his books were to be but furniture and his friends only people who lived and walked in a nebulous outer world from which he was trying to escape.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He stared at her, and the impression of her beauty grew until, uncommitted by a word, by even a formal introduction, he felt himself going out toward her, watching the turn of her lips and the shifting of her cheeks when she smiled.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He was tempted to lean over and kiss away her tears.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She did not know yet that splendor is something in the heart; at the moment when she realized that and melted into the passion of the universe he could take her without question or regret.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be fed tomato sandwiches and lemonades by some angelic servant still in a shadowy hinterland. Between paragraphs Anthony would come and kiss her as she lay indolently in the hammock….
— F Scott Fitzgerald
it's the paternal instinct, Amory—celibacy goes deeper than the flesh. . . .
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It's rotten that every bit of real love in the world is ninety-nine percent passion and one little soupcon of jealousy
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" —Thomas Parke D'invilliers
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.
— F Scott Fitzgerald