The best Quotes from Look Back in Anger

I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. There aren't any good, brave causes left.

Alison: "I don't think I want anything more to do with love. Any more. I can't take it on."
Cliff: "You're too young to start giving up. Too young, and too lovely."

You're hurt because everything is changed. Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same. And neither of you can face it. Something's gone wrong somewhere, hasn't it?

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors... because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

My generation is the generation that experienced school shootings beginning when I was in high school, the generation that fought in the post-9/11 wars, the first generation to have to deal with the reality of climate change, and the first generation not to be better off than our parents materially — if nothing changes.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.

If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?

And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.