David Levithan Quotes

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

To me, personally, an ideal society would be a world where only I and those I care for exist.

And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Individualism, one of the great achievements of Western civilization, is now accompanied more and more by such phenomena as fragmentation, solitude, egocentricity and the disintegration of solidarity

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.

I never really look at other people; I just worry about myself.

You look around, and you think, 'Given the chance, if we can get away with it, people are going to be nasty to each other. They're going to pull up the draw bridge; they're going to draw up the ladder and try to live in this little bubble without giving anything to anyone else - without even receiving anything from anyone else.'

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

There's no such thing as society.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.