David Levithan Quotes

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.

I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

All the time, I'm watching relationships.

There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.

Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.