David Levithan Quotes

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

We live in such an isolating time with technology and social media and I think that creates this feeling of having to connect, of having so many ways to connect but nothing's connecting.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be alone with our thoughts. If you want to, you have to arrange it now. You have to go off where there's no WiFi and leave your equipment behind, but still have some sort of GPS tracking to make sure you don't get lost or die.

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

I'm perpetually lonely.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

I'm always interested in whatever I can do to not look at my phone.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

For most people, Twitter feels lonely.

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.