David Levithan Quotes

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

I get up every morning the same as everyone else, and scratch my head and just get on with the job. Whatever that job may be.

Think twice; it's just another day for you and me in paradise.

How we start our day is often how we live our lives

The way you begin each day defines how you'll live each day.

The way you begin your day determines the way you will live your day.

You've got to do something, even if it's just to kick-start the day. I use music. And running.

My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.

I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.

To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

My main goal now is waking up healthy every day and going on with life.