Life
Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Gatsby believed he could repeat the past. He could not. Neither can we. These Gatsby quotes about repeating the past are the most beautiful warning ever written. Read them slowly.
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More topics ›Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
He smiled understandingly, much more than understandingly.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I hope she'll be a fool, that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
You always look so cool. You resemble the advertisement of the man.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
It eluded us then, but that's no matter, tomorrow we will run faster.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
You can't repeat the past. Of course you can. I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I have been turning over in my mind ever since.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Her voice is full of money.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled.— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby