David Levithan Quotes

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

I wanna make my mark, and I wanna be part of something!

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would like to impact? Start on those and you can change the world. Maybe you can only make your neighborhood a little bit better, or make someone's life a little bit better. Isn't that the kind of purpose?

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If you want to be immortal, do something useful in your lifetime.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

I want to be part of something great.

Everyone has to die someday. I'd rather die after doing something worthwhile.

I want to leave this earth knowing that I did something. I made a difference in someone's life.