The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Quotes

“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. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. 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.”
― Benjamin Button, 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

“You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?”
― Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never
stopped me from loving you.”
― 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.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. And if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again”
― F. S. Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“So he nodded, smiled, listened, was happy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“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

“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

“Benjamin felt himself on the verge of a proposal--with an effort he choked back the impulse. "You're just the
romantic age," she continued--"fifty. Twenty-five is too wordly-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.”
― 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

“I'd rather marry a man of fifty and be taken care of than marry a man of thirty and take care of him.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“he found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gayety grew stronger.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

“Benjamin discovered that he was becoming more and more attracted by the gay side of life. It”
― 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. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Your life is defined by opportunities...even the ones you miss”
― Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Old fellows like me can't learn new tricks.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Then it was all dark, and his white crib and the dim faces that moved above
him, and the warm sweet aroma of the milk, faded out altogether from his
mind.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Pero hay dos maneras de hacer las cosas: una correcta y otra equivocada. Si tú has decidido ser distinto del resto del mundo, dudo que yo sea capaz de impedírtelo, pero me parece que no es muy considerado de tu parte.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, El curioso caso de Benjamin Button