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Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same fucking day, man.
Janis Joplin1943–1970Comments on a performance of “Ball and Chain” Festival Express (1970)
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth (2008)
1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an ‘Annus Horribilis’.
Elizabeth II1926–2022Speech at the Guildhall, London, on the 40th anniversary of her accession (24 November 1992)
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Wisdom
Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIn context
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIn context
- Change
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene V, spoken by HamletIn context
- Responsibility
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Ozymandias (1818)In context
- History
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XXIIIIn context
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IVIn context
- Christmas
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Nature
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Chapter XXVIn context
- Comedy
- Money
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday⁠—but never jam to-day.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter VIn context
- Comedy
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter VIn context
- Thinking
“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIn context
- Hope