Quote

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

John Green

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
Author
Businessperson
Critic
Editor
Film Producer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Podcaster
Singer
Indianapolis
Indiana
John Michael Green
Running
Evolve
Makes
Fish
Made
Fishes
Crawl
Towns
Bury
Dead
Lungs
Land
Dry
Teach
Teaches
Fear
Onto

More quotes by John Green

Image
Waffles аrе јust awesome bread.
John Green
Image
What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
John Green
Image
The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
John Green
Image
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
John Green
Image
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.
John Green
Image
I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.
John Green
Image
She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.
John Green
Image
As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.
John Green
Image
It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness.
John Green
Image
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?
John Green
Image
I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
John Green
Image
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
John Green
Image
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.
John Green
Image
See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.
John Green
Image
It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.
John Green
Image
A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
John Green
Image
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.
John Green
Image
It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
John Green
Image
When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.
John Green
Image
Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.
John Green