All F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Quotes about “Past”

“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.”
“Canâ€™t repeat the past?â€¦Why of course you can!”
“One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.”
“You canâ€™t repeat the past.â€ â€œCanâ€™t repeat the past?â€ he cried incredulously. â€œWhy of course you can!”
“Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.”
“He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”
“There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.”
“There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.”

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