Top 70 Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

3. “Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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4. “I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

5. “It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

6. “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

8. “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

9. “Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

10. “Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

11. “Death is the only real elegance.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

13. “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

14. “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

15. “Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

16. “I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

19. “Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

21. “A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

22. “Nothing could have survived our life.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

23. “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

24. “Since we first met I have loved you with whatever I had to love you with.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

25. “I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it – and it’s still I love you – love you – love you – my Sweetheart.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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26. “Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

27. “The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

29. “Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

30. “Maybe I’m getting tired – I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

31. “Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

33. “Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

34. “A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

35. “Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow – or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

36. “Youth doesn’t need friends – it only needs crowds.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

37. “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

38. “Oh, the secret life of man and woman – dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

39. “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

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40. “There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

41. “Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

42. “Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

43. “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

44. “I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

45. “We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

46. “Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

47. “There’s nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

48. “Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef’s headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

49. “Father said conflict develops the character.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

50. “One illusion is as good as another.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald