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49 Great Quotes By Zelda Fitzgerald, The Original 'It Girl'

Famous As: Socialite & Referred to as 'The first American Flapper' by Her Husband 'F. Scott Fitzgerald'
Born On: July 24, 1900
Died On: March 10, 1948
Born In: Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Died At Age: 47
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.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

Zelda Fitzgerald
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.

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Zelda Fitzgerald
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Zelda Fitzgerald
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

Zelda Fitzgerald
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

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

Zelda Fitzgerald
Isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

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.

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald
The trouble with emergencies is,

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.

Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I’ll save you too.

Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I’ll save you too.

Zelda Fitzgerald
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.

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I love you anyway-even if there isn't any me or any love or even any life-
I love you.

I love you anyway-even if there isn't any me or any love or even any life- I love you.

Zelda Fitzgerald
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.

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

Zelda Fitzgerald
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Zelda Fitzgerald
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring." -Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald
Death is the only real elegance.

Death is the only real elegance.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Nothing could have survived our life.

Nothing could have survived our life.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?

Zelda Fitzgerald
Father said conflict develops the character

Father said conflict develops the character

Zelda Fitzgerald
And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I’m so damn glad I love you – I wouldn’t love any other man on earth – I b’lieve if I had deliberately decided on a sweetheart, he’d have been you.

I’m so damn glad I love you – I wouldn’t love any other man on earth – I b’lieve if I had deliberately decided on a sweetheart, he’d have been you.

Zelda Fitzgerald
My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.

My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.

Nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald
People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

Zelda Fitzgerald
But I warn you, I am only really myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

But I warn you, I am only really myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I don’t want to live— 
I want to love first, and live…incidentally.

I don’t want to live— 
I want to love first, and live…incidentally.

Zelda Fitzgerald
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.

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald
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.

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself.

Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!

Zelda Fitzgerald
We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.

I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.

Zelda Fitzgerald
We quarreled in the gray morning dew about morals; and made up over a red bathing suit.

We quarreled in the gray morning dew about morals; and made up over a red bathing suit.

Zelda Fitzgerald
They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

Zelda Fitzgerald
. . . 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.

. . . 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.

Zelda Fitzgerald
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.

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Paris is a pen-and-ink drawing before nine o’clock.

Paris is a pen-and-ink drawing before nine o’clock.

Zelda Fitzgerald
I do not want to live. 
I want to love and then to live,
incidentally.

I do not want to live. I want to love and then to live, incidentally.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the hearth can hold.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the hearth can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow? Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow? Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

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.

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald