David Levithan Quotes

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

Want is misery.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of it.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!

I guess you need days off, but I just didn't want them.

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.