Stephen Sondheim Quotes

We know now that if we lose this war, it will be generations or even centuries before our concept of democracy can live again.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

Life is more about losing than winning.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

We're man enough to step in there and fight our hearts out and you have to be man enough to deal with a loss.

Boy, do I hate to lose.

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.

I don't feel bad about losing.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.

Lust is the cause of generation.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.