Tender Is The Night Quotes

• Los nuevos amigos suelen pasarlo mejor juntos que los viejos.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Viejos amigos, nueva amistad, juntos

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night", p.18, Dramatists Play Service Inc.

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• The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Emptiness, Gateways, Strongest

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.361, e-artnow

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• Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Night, Persons

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.468, e-artnow

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• Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Pain, Choices, Sometimes

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Happiness, Past, Afternoon

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.353, e-artnow

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• Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . .

  John Keats

  Night, Light, Thee

  1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode to a Nightingale', stanza 4.

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• Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Liars, Men, Vanity

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Sonrió, una conmovedora sonrisa infantil que era como toda la juventud perdida del mundo.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Lost Youth, World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Vanity, People, Feelings

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Space, Fog, People

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.473, e-artnow

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• I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tired, Knowing Nothing, Knowing

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.435, e-artnow

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Profound, Promise, Littles

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Space, People, Wells

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.473, e-artnow

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• It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Poverty, Spirit, Interest

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.649, Book House

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• En realidad, ése es mi secreto: no puedo hablar de ti con nadie porque no quiero que nadie más sepa lo maravillosa que eres.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Secret, Want

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.356, e-artnow

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• 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. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Agony, People, Suffering

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.338, e-artnow

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• good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Gloves, Manners, Admission

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Discipline, Taste

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Long, Looks

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night”, p.37, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Kissing, Hard

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.476, e-artnow

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Skins, Scar

  Tender Is the Night bk. 2, ch. 11 (1934)

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• the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Want, Obstacles, Relation

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Amor, Sueño, Sueño

  "Oda a un ruiseñor" (1820) st. 8

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• Le cogí manía a Fitzgerald; cuando acabé el instituto, ya había leído todo lo que había escrito. Empecé con "El gran Gatsby" y seguí con "Tierna es la noche", que me cautivó. Luego leí "A este lado del paraíso", su novela sobre Princeton. Literalmente, dormí con ese libro bajo la almohada durante dos años.

  A. Scott Berg

  Book, School, Night

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• I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

  David Nicholls

  Night, Romance, Atmosphere

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