The Great Gatsby Quote About Repeating the Past

Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can.

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

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

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

He smiled understandingly, much more than understandingly.

I hope she'll be a fool, that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money.

You always look so cool. You resemble the advertisement of the man.

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.

He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close.

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

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

It eluded us then, but that's no matter, tomorrow we will run faster.

You can't repeat the past. Of course you can. I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before.

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

He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I have been turning over in my mind ever since.

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own.

There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights.

Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.

Her voice is full of money.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled.