David Levithan Quotes

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Without hope we live in desire.

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

There's no prayer like desire.

expectation isn't the same as desire

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.