David Levithan Quotes

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.

The obscurest epoch is today.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

We live in a bewildering world.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.