Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Levithan

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

David Levithan

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

David Levithan

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

David Levithan

fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?

David Levithan

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

David Levithan

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

David Levithan

I'm not in love with you.

David Levithan

and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

David Levithan

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

David Levithan

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

David Levithan

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

David Levithan

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

Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.

David Levithan

They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.

David Levithan

Love is the higher law.

David Levithan

Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.

David Levithan

I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

David Levithan

I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.

David Levithan

I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense.

David Levithan

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

David Levithan

I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

David Levithan

When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

David Letterman

Love: You can't start it like a car, you can't stop it with a gun.

Dalai Lama

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

Dalai Lama

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Dalai Lama

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Dalai Lama

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

Dalai Lama

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Dodie Smith

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

Dodie Smith

We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.

Dodie Smith

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

Dodie Smith

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.