David Levithan Quotes

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

Envy aims very high.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present. Fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

I don't think I have ever been completely satisfied, which is probably the right way to say it. I always felt like I wanted more.

Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.