Quotes on Tender Is The Night

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.