David Levithan Quotes

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

I’m concerned about all areas of uncertainty.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

I don't know what the future will bring.

The unknown is always scary.

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they've got pretty much figured where they're headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going, they're still kids. They've always been promoted from grade to grade.

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good.

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies