“Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow!”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 36
“One’s own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.”
— Glen Cook, book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 8, “The Barrowland” (p. 481)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "One’s own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism." by Glen Cook?
Glen Cook205
American fiction writer 1944Related quotes
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Source: Self-Consciousness
“Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.”
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
President Clinton's speech at the 200th anniversary of the University of North Carolina.
This quote was later used as a sample by electronic duo Cosmic Gate in their track "Tomorrow"
2000s
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Don't Ask Me Why.
Song lyrics, Glass Houses (1980)
“The story was their own — not far away,
As real as if it happened yesterday”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Narrator
A Child is Born (1942)
Context: I'm your narrator. It's my task to say
Just where and how things happen in our play,
Set the bare stage with words instead of props
And keep on talking till the curtain drops. …
It's an old task — old as the human heart,
Old as those bygone players and their art
Who, in old days when faith was nearer earth,
Played out the mystery of Jesus' birth
In hall or village green or market square
For all who chose to come and see them there,
And, if they knew that King Herod, in his crown,
Was really Wat, the cobbler of the town,
And Tom, the fool, played Abraham the Wise,
They did not care. They saw with other eyes.
The story was their own — not far away,
As real as if it happened yesterday,
Full of all awe and wonder yet so near,
A marvelous thing that could have happened here
In their own town — a star that could have blazed
On their own shepherds, leaving them amazed,
Frightened and questioning and following still
To the bare stable — and the miracle.
