Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Easy comfort isn't comforting
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
Comforting
Comfort
Easy
More quotes by John Green
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
Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.
John Green
People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?
John Green
The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.
John Green
I spy with my little eye a great story.
John Green
You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
John Green
I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.
John Green
You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
John Green
A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.
John Green
Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...
John Green
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
John Green
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.
John Green
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
John Green
You are fairly smart, I said after a while. You are fairly good at compliments, he answered.
John Green
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
John Green
That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.
John Green
Okay is BURSTING with sensuality
John Green
I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.
John Green
Funerals...are for the living.
John Green
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.
John Green