Nick Carraway

"No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end."

"There was nothing to talk about any more."

"I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes."

"The colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever."

"We're all trapped by our own circumstances."

"He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy."

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time."

"I looked at him and some of the fundamental decencies are parceled out unequally at birth."

"The loneliness of the moral highground."

"He stretched out his arms toward the dark water."

"Gatsby's wealth was not the only thing that distinguished him."

"I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart."

"Gatsby's house had none of the cheerfulness of a family home."

"There was an unmistakable air of natural superiority."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."

"Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply."

"I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever."

"So it happens sometimes, a man or woman cracks up just from the simple virtue of some irresistible charm."

"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

"His heart was in a constant, turbulent riot."