Jonathan Larson Quotes

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last. ~ Jonathan Larson

The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation. ~ Jonathan Larson

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation. ~ Jonathan Larson

The tick-tick-booms are softer now. I can barely hear them, and I think if I play loud enough, I can drown them out completely. ~ Jonathan Larson

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day, ~ Jonathan Larson

How do you know when it's time to let go? ~ Jonathan Larson

The world is calling, it's now or neverland. ~ Jonathan Larson

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century. ~ Jonathan Larson

No other road, no other way, no day but today. ~ Jonathan Larson

How you do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?
It reaches way down deep and tears you up till you're torn apart. ~ Jonathan Larson

Measure your life in love. ~ Jonathan Larson

It won't work
I look before I leap
I love margins and discipline
I make lists in my sleep
Baby what's my sin?
Never quit-I follow through
I hate mess-but I love you
What to do with my impromptu baby ~ Jonathan Larson

Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!. ~ Jonathan Larson

There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today.
I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be.
There's only now, there's only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other course, no other way.
NO DAY but TODAY ~ Jonathan Larson

She always said how lucky were to be friends ... but it was us baby who were the lucky ones ~ Jonathan Larson

Give into love or live in fear. ~ Jonathan Larson

There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last. ~ Jonathan Larson

No day but today. ~ Jonathan Larson

What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting, winds of change keep ripping away? ~ Jonathan Larson

When you're dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you're not alone ~ Jonathan Larson

The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock. ~ Jonathan Larson

There's only now, there's only here
Give in to love, or live in fear
No other path
No other way
No day but today ~ Jonathan Larson

Just don't let go or you may drown. ~ Jonathan Larson

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. ~ Jonathan Larson

I do not know very much about painting, but I know enough to know that the Art Teacher did not know much about it either and that, furthermore, she did not know or care anything at all about the way in which you can destroy a human being. Stephen, in many ways already dying, died a second and third and fourth and final death before her anger. ~ Jonathan Kozol

The idea that stories slavishly obey deep structural patterns seems at first vaguely depressing. But it shouldn't be. Think of the human face. The fact that all faces are very much alike doesn't make the face boring or mean that particular faces can't startle us with their beauty or distinctiveness. ~ Jonathan Gottschall

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb ... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost. ~ Jonathan Edwards

It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes. ~ Jonathan Turley

Hester shook her head. 'Don't confuse what you do with who you are, dearie. Besides, there's no shame in humble work. Why, Aesop himself, the king of storytellers, was a slave his whole life. Never drew a free breath, yet he shaped the world with just three small words: there once was. And where are his great masters now, hmm? Rotting in tombs, if they're lucky. But Aesop - he still lives to this day, dancin' on the tip of every tongue what's ever told a tale.' She winked at Molly. 'Think on that, next time you're scrubbing floors. ~ Jonathan Auxier

'100 Bullets' is probably my favorite thing, ever. It's pretty close with early 'Hellboy' stuff. ~ Jonathan Hickman

A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling. ~ Jonathan Franzen

I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it. ~ Jonathan Levine

I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it. ~ Brie Larson

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ~ Jonathan Swift

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name. ~ Jonathan Swift

Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already. ~ Jonathan Tropper

SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness . . . INTERPERSONAL SADNESSES: Sadness of being sad in front of one's parent; Sa[dn]ess of false love; Sadness of love [sic]; Friendship sadness; Sadness of a bad conversation; Sadness of the could-have-been; Secret sadness . . . ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Racism watching is a puzzle solving activity and often involves debunking pseudo-science. The investigator must try to figure out what makes people believe in weird ideas. As Stieg said in an interview, 'Fifty years later, people still believe in this; the whole Neo-Nazi movement. There is absolutely no sense in this. They do it contrary to everything science tells us. Contrary to human goodness or altruism, contrary to rational thinking. And this is fascinating, why? ~ Eric Bronson

Marconi recognized that with no revenue and no contracts and in the face of persistent skepticism, he needed more than ever to capture an ally of prominence and credibility. Through Fleming, however, Marconi also hoped to gain a benefit more tangible. His new idea, the feat he hoped would command the world's attention once and for all, would require more power and involve greater danger, physical and fiscal, than anything he had attempted before. When it came to high-power engineering, he knew, Fleming was the man to consult. UNLIKE LODGE OR KELVIN, Fleming was susceptible to flattery and needful of attention, as evidenced by the fact that upon receiving Marconi's telegram he made sure the London Times got a copy of it. The Times published it, as part of its coverage of Marconi's English Channel success. ~ Erik Larson

Some people take pretty pictures of nothing.
I'd rather record grime that means something. ~ Jonathan Heatt

What does it remember like? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer:

I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

If Americans had to discriminate directly against other people's children, I believe most citizens would find this morally abhorrent. Denial, in an active sense, of other people's children is, however, rarely necessary in this nation. Inequality is mediated for us by a taxing system that most people do not fully understand and seldom scrutinize. ~ Jonathan Kozol

My next thought was that it might be a city of the jinn, inhabited by a race of demons, its walls the work of magic, it houses built of smoke. ~ Jonathan Aycliffe

Increasingly, I'm coming to believe that fear is at the heart of all sin and disaffection. Fear that God will not be enough for us; fear that the identity we've been given is somehow incomplete. ~ Jonathan Martin

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Life is precious, Jacob thought. The most important of all thoughts, and the most obvious, and the most difficult to remember to have. How different my life would have been if I could have had that thought before I was forced to. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There's always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly no, it can't. There is some reasonable chance, however, that it could save your soul. If you're unhappy about the hatred that's been unleashed in your heart, you might try imagining what it's like to be the person who hates you; you might consider the possibility that you are, in fact, the Evil One yourself. ~ Jonathan Franzen

I see things . . . beautiful things . . . ~ Jonathan Stroud

You have to eat, all day, and you have to have the right fuel to get you through different physical and mental obstacles that fighters have to get through. Just dealing with the diet alone becomes an all-encompassing, fully immersive experience. And then, there's the physical side of it, having to put your body through everything required to make you look like a fighter. ~ Jonathan Tucker

He operated by Old World rules, the blurring of right and wrong into whatever you could get away with; ~ Jonathan Franzen

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. ~ Jonathan Swift

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly. ~ Jonathan Ames

So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by. ~ Jonathan Stroud

Life throws the world at you, those who make a difference are those who catch the world and throw it back at life. ~ Jonathan Malley

There's no shortage of material in life. ~ Jonathan Ames

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. ~ Jonathan Franzen

The rage inside him was titanic. How to keep from exploding? What a relief exploding was. ~ Jonathan Franzen

Well, I thought it was a dog, and the critics did, too. Woof. ~ Jonathan Galassi

I noticed how the band members watched her and how she made them smile and I realized that she was the kind of person who changed the feeling in a room, so that others suddenly feel that they are in the right place. Is that the secret of life, to surround yourself with people who are so full of passion, people who know sadness but not bitterness? I looked into her face, which was alive with excitement, and then into her eyes, which were full of all the things you can only say with your eyes. ~ Jonathan Hull

But that fantasy only lived upon the surface of his mind. pursuing it only dredged up pain as the truth of the past days poisoned the intimacy of years. ~ Jonathan French

Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that to simply think that you are brilliant will not produce brilliancy, unless your understanding of brilliancy is made larger, higher and finer. ... . When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are. ~ Christian D. Larson

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime. ~ Doug Larson