Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
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
Always
Frankly
Surprised
Dumb
Intellectual
Wasn
Belief
Gus
Heaven
Disengagement
Kind
Associated
More quotes by John Green
That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.
John Green
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?
John Green
Everything's uglier close up, she said. Not you, I answered.
John Green
We are now as I wished we could be then.
John Green
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
I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.
John Green
We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.
John Green
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
John Green
Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.
John Green
It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
John Green
We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
John Green
The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.
John Green
Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
John Green
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
John Green
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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
That doesn't sound like my Margo, she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors.
John Green
But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.
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
But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?
John Green
