David Levithan Quotes

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get me to see it. I think if you're too passive, you just fall into that friend role. And that's hard to break out of.

You can't love someone unless they love you back.

I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.

He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?

He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passion, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings. But he who is loved without reciprocating that love is lost beyond redemption, for it is not in his power to set a limit to that other's passion, to keep it within bounds, and the strongest will is reduced to impotence in the face of another's desire.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

The only love that lasts is unrequited love.

Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.