David Levithan Quotes

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

I don't know if I'm brave.

I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.

Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."

to everything there is an end - except fear.

You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room-- I'm afraid to move.

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

It's a very, very exciting time, but you can't help thinking or not quite knowing how it's seen from the outside. You're constantly in a state of terror or regret, not quite knowing how things are going to pan out, or whether you've made the right decisions. But, maybe that's just what it's like. Maybe that's just the life of it.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

Jump or stay in the boat.

Oh, god,” I said. “Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?” --Sadie to Zia

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.