Quotes by Jonathan Larson

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”

“The opposite of war is not peace, its creation.”

“Tick, Tick ... BOOM!”

“Id be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had, someone to live for, unafraid to say I love you.”

“Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!”

“Seasons of Love”

“Rent,”

“to say its a dream come true doesnt do it justice, because Ive never dreamed this big. The film and play stand side by side -- you get the advantage of more intimacy in the films close-ups, and the advantage of live rock onstage.”

“Labels are for cans, not people.”

“Frankly, if people arent going to cast me because Im queer, than I dont want to work with them.”

“There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”

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.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

Give into love or live in fear.

In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and [we] should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

“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.”