David Levithan Quotes

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

I am ready to be alone.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

Remember to always be yourself.

A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.

I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.

It's cool to step away for a second and be my own person other than just somebody in a known family.

I think there is a price to being alone, and there is a price to being in a relationship. It all depends on which price you want to pay - but none of them are free.

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

Marriage happened very late for me. It took place at a time, when my definition of companionship had really narrowed down.