Quotes from the movie The Great Gatsby (30 quotes)

“The Great Gatsby” is a feature film directed by Baz Luhrmann, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The film was shot in 3D and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire. The film was received ambiguously by the American film press, but despite this, it was awarded a number of awards, including two Oscars for best scenery and costumes. Quotes from the movie The Great Gatsby are presented in this collection.

Her gray eyes, tired of the sunlight, looked not at me, but at the road, but something was deliberately shifted by her in our relationship, and for a moment it seemed to me as if the feeling that she inspired in me was love.

You need to manage your life.

We are like boats trying to break into the present, but we are mercilessly carried back to the past...

Vague shadows leaned towards each other in taxis, waiting impatiently at the intersection, I could hear a fragment of a song, laughter in response to an inaudible joke, cigarette lights drew intricate loops in the darkness. And I imagined that I, too, was rushing somewhere where fun awaited, and, sharing the joy of others, I wished these people well.

Her presence makes everything extraordinary, old man!

The brightest moments go away so quickly and irrevocably.

In desperation, he extended his hand out the window, as if he wanted to grab a handful of air, to take with him a piece of this place, illuminated by her presence. But the train was already moving at full speed, everything flashed and blurred before his eyes, and he realized that this piece of life, the most beautiful and fragrant, was lost forever.

She radiated a disarming warmth...

It was that night that I discovered Gatsby's extraordinary gift... His hope. A gift that I have never encountered in any other person... A gift that I will never meet again.

It is important to be a friend to a person while he is alive, and not when he is already dead.

I knew that for a person like me, falling in love was a big mistake. I'm 32 years old, I can still become great if I forget that I once lost Daisy.

I remember how we came to Gatsby and gossiped about his vices, and he stood next to us, immersed in his virgin dreams.

It is always very painful to see with new eyes what you have managed to get used to in one way or another.

He had come a long way, came so close to his dream that it could no longer elude him. But he didn't know that she was already left behind.

If you measure a personality by its ability to express itself, then there was something truly magnificent in Gatsby, some kind of heightened sensitivity to all the promises of life... It was a rare gift of hope, a romantic passion that I have never seen in anyone else...

The brightest moments go away so quickly and irrevocably.

- Open the window! - There are no more windows! “Then bring the axe.”

They were careless creatures, Tom and Daisy, they broke things and people, and then ran away and hid behind their money, their all-consuming carelessness, or whatever else their union was based on, leaving others to clean up after them.

It was that night that I discovered Gatsby's extraordinary gift... His hope. A gift that I have never encountered in any other person. A gift that I will never meet again.

She radiated a disarming warmth, as if she was never as happy with anyone in the world as she was with you.

There were probably moments today when the living Daisy in some way did not live up to the Daisy of his dreams - and the point here was not in her, but in the enormous vitality of the image he created. This image was better than her, better than anything in the world. He created it with the true passion of an artist, constantly adding something to it, decorating it with every bright feather that came to hand. No tangible, real charm can compare with what a person is able to accumulate in the depths of his fantasy.

The brightest moments go away so quickly and irrevocably.

Nonentity upon insignificance, that's who they are! You alone are worth them all combined!

Gatsby believed in a green light, the light of an incredible future happiness that moves away every year. Even if it slipped away today, it doesn’t matter - tomorrow we will run even faster, we will stretch out our hands even further... And one fine morning...

It was that night that I discovered Gatsby's extraordinary gift... His hope. A gift that I have never encountered in any other person. A gift that I will never meet again.

It’s impossible to bring back the past?!... Of course it’s possible!

“I’m thirty years old,” I said. “I’ve been five years past the age when you can lie to yourself and call it honesty.”

Is it impossible to bring back the past?! Of course available!

Her presence makes everything extraordinary, old man!

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16 best quotes from Francis Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby
16 best quotes from Francis Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby

1) If you suddenly want to judge someone, remember that not all people in the world have the advantages that you had.

2) I’m very glad it’s a girl. God only grant that she grows up to be a fool, because in our life the best thing for a woman is to be a pretty fool.

3) So we try to swim forward, fighting the current, but it carries everything away and carries our boats back to the past.

4) It is important to be a friend to a person while he is alive, and not when he has already died. The dead have no use for all this.

5) No tangible, real charm can compare with what a person is able to accumulate in the depths of his fantasy.

6) “I’m thirty years old,” I said. — I’m five years past the age when you can lie to yourself and call it honesty

7) You are either a hunter, or a game, or you are acting, or you are wearily trailing behind.

They were careless creatures...they broke things and people, and then ran away and hid behind their money, their all-consuming carelessness, or whatever else their alliance was based on, leaving others to clean up after them.

9) It’s a great advantage to be sober when everyone around you is drunk. You won’t say too much, and most importantly, if you decide to allow yourself something, you will be able to choose a time when no one notices anything or no one cares.

10) An incompetent driver is safe as long as another incompetent driver does not meet him.

11) He smiled at me affectionately - no, much more than affectionately. You can encounter such a smile, full of inexhaustible encouraging power, four, well, five times in your life. For a moment, she seems to absorb the entirety of the outside world, then, as if obeying an inevitable choice, she focuses on you. And you feel that they understand you exactly as much as you want to be understood, they believe in you to the extent that you believe in yourself, and they certainly see you exactly as you would most like to appear.

12) With the first autumn chill, life will begin all over again.

13) Dishonesty in a woman is a flaw that you never condemn particularly harshly.

14) After all, everything pretended serves as a cover for something, and sooner or later the truth will be revealed.

15) It is always very painful to see with new eyes what you have managed to get used to in one way or another.

16) There is no confusion more devastated than the confusion of a shallow soul.

Without a doubt, the film "The Great Gatsby", based on the book of the same name by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, is very famous. The excellent cast, wonderful costumes and photography attracted me and made me watch this film. It is directed by Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio (Gatsby), Carey Mulligan (Daisy) and Tobey Maguire (Nick Carraway).

The film was released in 2013 and received many awards.

I watched this film twice. The first time I didn’t understand it at all, the ending seemed strange to me, it lacked the happy climax characteristic of Hollywood films. Then I read The Great Gatsby book and watched the movie a second time. I was completely amazed that the characters spoke in phrases from the book, the plot was conveyed in as much detail as possible for a two-hour film. But still, in my opinion, Gatsby’s love in the film seems more tender, sensitive, real; I want to blame Daisy for not loving him as much as she could, for missing out on true love. When watching the film, you feel sorry for Gatsby; his love seems ideal.

After reading the book, I wondered: “Did Gatsby love Daisy or not?”

To answer this question, consider excerpts from the book.

The first moment is a conversation between Nick and Gatsby after the party:

“She didn’t like it,” he said immediately.

- What are you saying, on the contrary?

“No, I didn’t like it.”

She was bored. He fell silent, but even without words it was clear how depressed he was.

“She seems far, far away from me,” he said. “I can’t make her understand.”

-Are you talking about the ball?

- About the ball? “With one snap of his fingers, he wiped away all the points he had ever given. - What does the ball have to do with it, old man?

He wanted Daisy to do nothing less than come to Tom and say: “I don’t love you and never have,” and after she had crossed out the last four years with this phrase, he could move on to more practical matters. So, for example, as soon as she formally receives her freedom, they will go to Louisville and celebrate the wedding in her home, as if five years ago.

“But she doesn’t understand,” he said. “She used to be able to understand everything.” We used to sit for hours and...”

Let us pay attention to the fact that Gatsby uses the words “must” and “force”. All these parties, celebrities, money, a long path to success - all for the sake of the woman he loves, in order to be worthy of her. He has done so much for her that he feels that she cannot do otherwise. Gatsby demands gratitude, he did so much for them to be together. But if he really loves her, then why does he demand “payment” from her for his love? I think that a truly loving person does not notice how much he gives, but is ready to sacrifice everything without demanding anything in return. If the other person does not love as much in return or cannot make the desired choice, then you need to be able to let him go.

Second excerpt from the book:

“She was the first 'society girl' he came across. That is, he had previously, under different circumstances, happened to deal with similar people, but he always communicated with them as if through an invisible wire fence. From the first time she seemed dizzyingly desirable to him. He began visiting her house, first in the company of other officers from Camp Taylor, then alone. He was amazed - he had never seen such a beautiful house before. But the most amazing, breathtaking thing was that Daisy lived in this house - she lived simply, just like he did in his camp tent. Everything here beckoned with a secret ready to be revealed, made him think about the bedrooms upstairs, beautiful and cool, unlike other bedrooms he knew, about carefree fun spilling out into the long corridors, about love intrigues - not faded with time and smelling of dry lavender, but alive, vibrant , inseparable from the shine of the latest cars and the noise of balls, after which the flowers have not yet faded. He was also worried by the fact that many men had loved Daisy before him - this further increased her value in his eyes. Everywhere he felt their invisible presence; it seemed that echoes of longings that had not yet died out were trembling in the air.”

Daisy embodied Gatsby's dream of wealth. At the same time, wealth became not the goal,

but a means to achieve this dream. Daisy is the personification of the life for which he so strived. But behind all this he did not see the real Daisy, who became for him an ideal without flaws. He was flattered by the attention of other men to her (if so many men loved her, it means that there really is something special about her and she is certainly very good). Is it love or a desire to possess?

Third passage:

“When I went up to say goodbye, I saw on Gatsby’s face the same expression of confusion - as if doubt had stirred in him about the completeness of his newfound happiness. Almost five years! There were probably moments today when the living Daisy in some way did not live up to the Daisy of his dreams - and the point here was not in her, but in the enormous vitality of the image he created. This image was better than her, better than anything in the world. He created

it with the true passion of an artist, all the time adding something to it, decorating it with every bright feather that came to hand. No tangible, real charm can compare with what a person is able to accumulate in the depths

your imagination."

I think this fragment is the answer to the burning question - Did Gatsby really love Daisy? He loved the image that he created himself with special passion.

Gatsby did not know the real Daisy, but saw the image of a beautiful “society girl” who lives so easily in this world, where her every whim can be fulfilled with the help of money. The heroine seemed ideal to him, but, as you know, there are no ideal people.

Perhaps Gatsby's death saved him from great disappointment in life. If they had stayed together, then, most likely, her ideal image would gradually collapse, and the hero would see the real Daisy, completely different from the image that he so passionately loved.

Thus, we came to the conclusion that Fitzgerald in his book says that Gatsby did not really love Daisy, but was in love with the image of her created by his imagination. In the film, it rather seems that Gatsby really loves Daisy, since we do not hear the words of the author, which help to reveal the true meaning of the hero's attitude towards her.

In my opinion, The Great Gatsby is truly a book worth reading. It gives food for thought, makes you think, and pushes you to search for answers to this and other important questions.

List of sources

1. “Analysis of Gatsby Fitzgerald and cinema” [Electronic resource]. URL: (access date: 04/23/2017).