David Levithan Quotes

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, / He travels the fastest who travels alone.

But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

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.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

Being a single woman is like going off to war.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

I appreciate individualism.

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.