Jay Gatsby and the Green Light

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

This quote from The Great Gatsby beautifully encompasses Gatsby's deception of a perfect, attainable dream, and by extension a truth in every person's quest for a utopian dream.