David Levithan Quotes

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

I have no talent for certainty.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

I'm anything but confident.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

If you still have to ask, shame on you

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks them insincere. Yet I want to believe her. At the same time it does not seem so very important that she should love me. It is not her role. I am so filled with my love of her. And at the same time I feel that I am dying. Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

You can never be totally confident.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

I was wracked with insecurity.