David Levithan Quotes

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

I think people have a lot of layers. I know I do in particular.

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.