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“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.” (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Aging isn’t something to fear or be ashamed of. It’s a natural part of the journey.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“And here we come to an unpleasant subject which it will be well to pass over as quickly as possible. There was only one thing that worried Benjamin Button; his wife had ceased to attract him.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“As long as we’re fighting about what color your children are going to be, there won’t be the brain power to solve the world’s problems.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Benjamin started; an almost chemical change seemed to dissolve and recompose the very elements of his body. A rigour passed over him, blood rose into his cheeks, his forehead, and there was a steady thumping in his ears. It was first love.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“But a frantic inspection of the boys’ department revealed no suits to fit the new-born Button. He blamed the store, of course – in such cases it is the thing to blame the store.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“By the time he was twelve years old his parents had grown used to him. Indeed, so strong is the force of custom that they no longer felt that he was different from any other child – except when some curious anomaly reminded them of the fact.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I can honestly say … I have not wasted a single moment of this marvelous life!”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I’d rather marry a man of fifty and be taken care of than marry a man of thirty and take care of him.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“In 1920 Roscoe Button’s first child was born. During the attendant festivities, however, no one thought it “the thing” to mention, that the little grubby boy, apparently about ten years of age who played around the house with lead soldiers and a miniature circus, was the new baby’s own grandfather.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“It is never too late to become the person we were meant to be.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Life is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Life is not measured by the years you live, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“No matter how many years we have, we all have the power to make a difference in the world.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Some people are born old, and some never seem so.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“This is your child, and you’ll have to make the best of it. We’re going to ask you to take him home with you as soon as possible-sometime to-day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“When his grandfather’s initial antagonism wore off, Benjamin and that gentleman took enormous pleasure in one another’s company. They would sit for hours, these two, so far apart in age and experience, and, like old cronies, discuss with tireless monotony the slow events of the day. Benjamin felt more at ease in his grandfather’s presence than in his parents’ – they seemed always somewhat in awe of him and, despite the dictatorial authority they exercised over him, frequently addressed him as ‘Mr.‘”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“When his son was dressed Mr. Button regarded him with depression. The costume consisted of dotted socks, pink pants, and a belted blouse with a wide white collar. Over the latter waved the long whitish beard, drooping almost to the waist. The effect was not good.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“When you’re not bound by time, getting old is meaningless.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” – Hildegarde”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Your life is defined by opportunities…even the ones you miss”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
