A collection of quotes and thoughts by Zelda Fitzgerald on love, romance, boredom, life, incidents, youth, age, philosophies, beauty, regrets and unapologetic.
49 Great Quotes By Zelda Fitzgerald, The Original 'It Girl'
Zelda Fitzgerald was an iconic American novelist and socialist, considered among the first of the American ‘flappers’. With the advent of the 20th century, modernization began in America and people too started to change. Women started to explore the outside world, unlike their pre-descendants who served at the feet of their husbands and families. Zelda Fitzgerald was one among them; she was bold, intellectual, and passionate and did not limit herself to the boundaries of the society. She is also known as the wife of renowned American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scott Fitzgerald dubbed her the ‘first flapper’ and their relationship was among those romantic stories that people talk about. Zelda greatly influenced Scott, and his works, by being herself ‘bold and beautiful’. ‘Save Me the Waltz’ became the most talked among her works. Zelda set the standards high for the modern society woman, and her works, life and thoughts inspired a whole generation in her days. Here are some of the famous quotations and sayings by Zelda Fitzgerald which are sure to inspire you even today. Presenting Zelda Fitzgerald quotes on love, romance, boredom, life, incidents, youth, age, philosophies, beauty, regrets and unapologetic.
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself
Isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?
Zelda Fitzgerald
Without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
. . . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.
Something may be a sort of fulfillment of yourself, and it may not be great to other people, but it is just as essential to yourself as if it is a great masterpiece.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the hearth can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.
