David Levithan Quotes

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

Oh, what a void there is in things.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted and writing this really dark record. I was at the bottom of a well.

The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and anxiety and loss of self and isolation and those different levels of hiding.

Emptiness will always cripple me.

No one alive is more tormented nor weaker than myself.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.

There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy