Rent Quotes

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent

“Give in to love or live in fear.”
― Jonathan Larson

“12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The scene is very Sopranos meets Rent.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret or life is yours to miss. No other course, no other way, no day but today.”
― RENT the Musical

“[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.”
― Mark Twain

“We have seen in detail above that the ultimate earnings of factors go to the owners of labor and of ground land and, as interest, to capitalists. If land can be capitalized, does this not mean that land and capital goods are “really the same thing” after all? The answer to the latter question is No.25It is still emphatically true that the earnings of basic land factors are ultimate and irreducible, as are labor earnings, while capital goods have to be constantly produced and reproduced, and therefore their earnings are always reducible to the earnings of ground land, labor, and time.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State / Power and Market: Government and Economy

“I spent so much time at “rock bottom” that I was charged rent for staying there.”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“When capital has bumped up against limits to profit-growth in the past, it has found fixes in things like colonisation, structural adjustment programmes, wars, restrictive patent laws, nefarious debt instruments, land grabs, privatisation, and enclosing commons like water and seeds. Why would it be any different this time? Indeed, a study by the ecological economist Beth Stratford finds that when capital faces resource constraints, this is exactly what happens: it turns to aggressive rent-seeking behaviour. It seeks to grab existing value wherever it can, with clever mechanisms to suck income and wealth from the public domain into private hands, and from the poor to the rich, exacerbating inequality.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“ATTENTION
ANTI-RENTERS! AWAKE! AROUSE! . . .
Strike till the last armed foe expires,
Strike for your altars and your fires-
Strike for the green graves of your sires,
God and your happy homes!”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“~No Day, But Today~”
― Jonathan Larson

“For me, publishing books in hardback format is a protest against The World Economic Forum's decree that we will own nothing and be happy about it. In an economy that's subscription based, where we stream or rent everything as a service, this is my tiny, tangible fuck you.”
― Jarod Kintz, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, people wanted to rent homes due to social distancing and were avoiding renting in socially cramped apartment complexes.”
― Steven Magee

“525,600 minutes, 525,600 moments so dear, 525,600 minutes, how do you measure, measure a year”
― Jonathan Larson

“Malcontents who would dissent to paying rent are often bent on bad intent!!”
― Neil Leckman

“A maid’s love for her own children often forces her to pretend to love her employer’s children.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Ten percent of units rented at or below $480, and 10 percent rented at or above $750. A mere $270 separated some of the cheapest units in the city from some of the most expensive. That meant that rent in some of the worst neighborhoods was not drastically cheaper than rent in much better areas.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“Working just for money is to some people more humiliating than being unemployed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A Chicago Department of Public Welfare report in the mid-1920s stated that African Americans were charged about 20 percent more in rent than whites for similar dwellings. It also observed that in neighborhoods undergoing racial change, rents increased by 50 to 225 percent when African Americans occupied apartments that formerly housed whites. The limited supply of housing open to African Americans gave property owners in black neighborhoods the opportunity to make exorbitant profits.”
― Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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“Jonathan broke the silence. In a timorous voice, he said he could see clearly now, could see the future. The future is more exponentially exploding rents. The future is more condo buildings, more luxury housing bought by shell companies of the global wealthy elite. The future is more Whole Foods, aisles of refrigerated cut fruit packaged in plastic containers. The future is more Urban Outfitters, more Sephoras, more Chipotles. The future just wants more consumers. The future is more newly arrived college grads and tourists in some fruitless search for authenticity. The future is more overpriced Pabsts at dive-bar simulacrums. Something something Rousseau something. Manhattan is sinking.

What, literally? Because of global warming? I snarked.

Don’t make fun of me. And yes, literally and figuratively.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

“Yes; they can take everything. How foolish of Stephen Candy and his tribe not to be born of the class of landlords! The inconvenience of having no foothold on the earth’s surface is so manifest.”
― George Gissing, The Nether World

“Indeed, we had caused some surprise by having a child not only while renting, but while renting in precarious circumstances, in furnished property, and without the proper contract and strict rent control enjoyed by most tenants.”
― Tim Parks, An Italian Education

“The anxiety that attaches to periodic payments is very specific. It eventually sets in train a parallel process which weighs down on us day after day even though we never become conscious of the objective relationship involved. It haunts the human project, not immediate practice. An object that is mortgaged escapes us in time, and has in fact escaped us from the outset. It flees us, and its flight echoes that of the serial object ever vainly striving towards the model. This dual movement of things away from our grasp is what creates the latent fragility and ever-imminent disappointments of the world of objects that surrounds us.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects

“When investigating car options for a new car purchase, I will rent the various models of cars for a day and drive each of them before making a decision.”
― Steven Magee

“People will always rent the affordable rental over the expensive one, even if it means driving a little further.”
― Steven Magee

“December 24, 9pm Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes of it, instead of my usual shit.”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent

“Rents have gone astronomical!”
― Steven Magee

“I have two main problems: (1) how to earn $200 to $300 per month to eat, pay, rent, without becoming a robot and with my clothes on (2) do what I want which is real, approaches reality. End of my life.)”
― Kathy Acker, Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels