David Levithan Quotes

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

Separate not thyself from the community.

We are a people in search of community.

Impact has always been a great place for camaraderie and feeling like a family.

I need to feel part of something.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

It's definitely fun being a part of this family.

The Proms are everything life is all about: people coming together, and joy and music and celebration and togetherness.

We are not, and never need be, alone.

We belong to each other.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.