David Levithan Quotes

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby waves that say, "And hello to you, Human Host!" Except they're toes. I'm talking to my toes. Maybe I'm not bored... maybe I'm lonely?

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.