YESTERDAY QUOTES II
quotations about yesterday
Yesterday is the fixation of the envious because what could have been--but is not--is always at the center of his attention.
MIHNEA C. MOLDOVEANU
Master Passions: Emotion, Narrative, and the Development of Culture
Our yesterdays
Are like a lonely and a ruined land
Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs--
A fading land to which is no return.
HENRY ABBEY
"Invocation to the Sun"
Today is nature's way of giving yesterday one more chance.
VERNON K. MCLELLAN
Wise Words and Quotes
'Twas yesterday we all lived there, beyond the Ditches--thus
Old Time, the nimble wizard, comes and plays his tricks with us.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT
"Only Yesterday", The Prophecy and Other Poems
Newly wakened, I recognized
the day -- it was yesterday,
it was yesterday with another name,
it was a friend I knew to be lost
who came back to surprise me.
PABLO NERUDA
"The Long Day Called Thursday", Selected Poems
Today's all the treasure poor mortals can boast,
For tomorrow's not gain'd, and yesterday's lost.
WILLIAM COLLINS
"An Imitation of the Eleventh Ode of the First Book of Horace", The Poetical Works of William Collins
I speak as though it all happened yesterday. Yesterday indeed is recent, but not enough. For what I tell this evening is passing this evening, at this passing hour. I'm no longer with these assassins, in this bed of terror, but in my distant refuge, my hands twined together, my head bowed, weak, breathless, calm, free, and older than I'll have ever been, if my calculations are correct.
SAMUEL BECKETT
"The Calmative", Samuel Beckett: Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism
The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
PAMELA ANDERSON
The mistakes that we made yesterday, any cares that we had, any aches and pains are already over. There is not anything that we can do to go back and change them. Money cannot buy back our yesterday. Prayers cannot undo what has already happened. We cannot take back the words that we said yesterday. We cannot undo a single activity that we have already completed. Yesterday is gone.
JOHN S.
Wisdom for Today Along Recovery Lane: Daily Readings for Persons in Recovery that are Using the Twelve Step Program
Life we drank to the dregs and lees;
Give us--ah! give us--but Yesterday!
AUSTIN DOBSON
"The Prodigals", Collected Poems
Tomorrow is a beacon for the ambitious, just as yesterday is a beacon for the envious.
MIHNEA C. MOLDOVEANU
Master Passions: Emotion, Narrative, and the Development of Culture
There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
SAMUEL BECKETT
"Proust", Samuel Beckett: Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
BLAISE PASCAL
attributed, The Simplest Book God Ever Wrote
Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.
GERALD LAWSON SITTSER
A Grace Disguised
Yesterday shall be tomorrow, riddle me that my rapparee.
SAMUEL BECKETT
"Home Olga", Samuel Beckett: Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism
Yesterday is indeed irretrievably lost, but not everything that was yesterday is relegated to mere memory. Much that one saw, sensed, tasted, felt, endured, and did yesterday, one can certainly do today as well, and perhaps tomorrow also see, sense, taste, feel, endure, and do.
ALFRED SCHUTZ & THOMAS LUCKMANN
The Structures of the Life World
Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Don't let your yesterday ruin your today. Don't let your last loss beat you again.
ANONYMOUS
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow,
And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
JOHN DONNE
"An Anatomy of the World", The Complete English Poems