35 Best Tender is the Night Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here are some of the best Tender is the Night quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1934, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that explores the complexities of love, wealth, and mental illness in the early 20th century. Set in the French Riviera during the 1920s, it tells the story of Dick and Nicole Diver, a couple who seem to have everything. He’s a successful psychiatrist with an impressive list of patients, while she’s a beautiful socialite from a wealthy family.
However, as their relationship unfolds, it becomes clear that they both have deep-seated emotional issues that threaten to tear them apart. Nicole struggles with mental illness while Dick grapples with his own insecurities and sense of identity. They navigate through these challenging circumstances and encounter an array of fascinating characters, including Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress who becomes enamored with Dick.
Fitzgerald’s writing style is both poetic and powerful. He paints a vivid picture of the characters’ lives with his descriptive language and captures their emotional struggles with great depth and sensitivity. His portrayal of Dick Diver as a man torn between his professional duties and personal desires is particularly poignant. Tender is the Night also delves into issues surrounding gender roles at that period.
Tender is the Night Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
2
But you can love more than just one person, can’t you?
3
Either you think–or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
4
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves.
5
Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
6
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
7
Her love had reached a point where now at last she was beginning to be unhappy, to be desperate.
8
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
9
I don’t ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.
10
I never understood what common sense mean applied to a complicated problems.
11
I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.
12
I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.
13
I’m not much like myself any more.
14
If you’re in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.
15
In any case you mustn’t confuse a single failure with a final defeat.
16
Kiss me now, love me now.
17
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people’s opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
18
‘My God,’ he gasped, ‘you’re fun to kiss.’
19
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
20
Now, human respect—you don’t call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
21
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.
22
People living alone get used to loneliness.
23
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
24
She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.
25
She was somewhat shocked at the idea of being interested in another man–but other women have lovers–why not me?
26
Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
27
The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
28
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.
29
We all must try to be good.
30
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
31
When I see a beautiful shell like that I can’t help feeling a regret about what’s inside it.
32
When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.
33
When you get drunk you don’t tear anything apart except yourself.
34
When you’re older you’ll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It’s better to be cold and young than to love.
35
You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.
