F. Scott Fitzgerald Trying Quotations

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

We all must try to be good.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.