Zelda Fitzgerald born Zelda Sayre in 1900 was an iconic figure of the 1920s embodying the flapper lifestyle and known for her turbulent marriage with F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Her relationship with Scott started in 1918 and they married in 1920 becoming symbols of the Jazz Age.
In 1924 they moved to France where Zelda engaged in writing painting and ballet. However the 1920s also marked the start of their marital and Zelda’s mental health issues.
By 1930 she had her first breakdown and in 1932 she wrote her only novel “Save Me the Waltz.”
Financial struggles and Scott’s alcoholism exacerbated their problems. After Scott’s death in 1940 Zelda continued her creative pursuits but died in a fire in 1948.
Her life continues to inspire numerous works in popular culture.
In this post, I have selected the best quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald.
Top 10 Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
Nothing could have survived our life. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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 refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
One illusion is as good as another. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure … another chance in life. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Those men think I’m purely decorative, and they’re fools for not knowing better. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Youth doesn’t need friends – it only needs crowds. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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Insightful Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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.
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. ~ 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. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I’ll save you too. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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.
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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.
Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead. ~ 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. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Wise Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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.
Death is the only real elegance. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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.
Maybe I’m getting tired – I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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.
Thought-Provoking Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
I’m much to proud to care – pride keeps me from feeling half the things I ought to feel. ~ 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. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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.
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.
The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace? ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
I take a sunbath 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.
Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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.
Best Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
Nothing to do but drink and make love. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ~ 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. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Father said conflict develops the character. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
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.
I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Famous Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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.
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.
I don’t see how you can carry around as much love as I have given you. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and nowhere else in the world. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five. ~ 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. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
I wish I had been what I thought I was; and so debonnaire; and so debonnaire. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald.
So these were the 63 top quotes about Zelda Fitzgerald.
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