Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.
John Green
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Stories
Sacred
Mean
Hold
Something
Learned
People
Lying
Story
Interesting
Tells
Means
Myth
Doesn
Traditional
More quotes by John Green
What's the meaning of life? Other people.
John Green
Colin had always preferred baths one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down
John Green
The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
John Green
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.
John Green
Also, it was a bit hopeless, he said. A bit defeatist. If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree. I don't think defeatism is honest, Dad answered. I refuse to accept that.
John Green
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.
John Green
I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
John Green
If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It’s like fight club.
John Green
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.
John Green
Is the labyrinth living or dying?
John Green
It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.
John Green
…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.
John Green
Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
John Green
I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.
John Green
Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.
John Green
You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular freaking ice cream instead of, like, ice cream that's made out of air and human hope.
John Green
Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John Green
To be human is to catch the falling person.
John Green
How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other.
John Green
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
John Green