Top 500 David Levithan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.”

— David Levithan

2. “It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”

— David Levithan

3. “You don’t know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can’t know every me, and I can’t know every you.”

— David Levithan

4. “Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.”

— David Levithan

5. “You are so close, and I can’t reach you.”

— David Levithan

6. “She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.”

— David Levithan

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7. “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”

— David Levithan

8. “Honestly, I’m just trying to live day to day.”

— David Levithan

9. “There are all these moments you don’t think you will survive. And then you survive.”

— David Levithan

10. “What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”

— David Levithan

11. “Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.”

— David Levithan

12. “If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.”

— David Levithan

13. “Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.”

— David Levithan

14. “Love me less, but love me for a long time.”

— David Levithan

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15. “Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

— David Levithan

16. “If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn’t know that you’re there.”

— David Levithan

17. “She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”

— David Levithan

18. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”

— David Levithan

19. “There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”

— David Levithan

20. “Self-preservation isn’t worth it if you can’t live with the self you’re preserving.”

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21. “I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.”

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22. “It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

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23. “I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.”

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24. “I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don’t fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.”

— David Levithan

25. “And If only I could, I’d make a deal with God...”

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26. “You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.”

— David Levithan

27. “I no longer think she’s just being nice. She’s being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”

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28. “Love is the higher law.”

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29. “Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”

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30. “You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.”

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31. “Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.”

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32. “To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.”

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33. “I only have eyes for you.”

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34. “I hope someday you will find me and remember what I once meant to you.”

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35. “I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”

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36. “Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”

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37. “The clock always ticks. There are times you don’t hear it, and there are times that you do.”

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38. “Because when something happens, she’s the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”

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39. “I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.”

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40. “Fate has a strange way of making plans.”

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41. “A sound waiting to be a word.”

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42. “There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don’t see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy.”

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43. “Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”

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44. “I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can’t erase it. I can’t ignore it. I have lived my whole life like this, and you’re the thing that has made me wish it could stop.”

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45. “You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.”

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46. “The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There’s not getting over that.”

— David Levithan

47. “Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”

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48. “I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.”

— David Levithan

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49. “Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”

— David Levithan

50. “The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”

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