I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,” Whitman writes. And then for two pages, he’s just hearing: hearing a steam whistle, hearing people’s voices, hearing an opera. He sits on the grass and lets the sound pour through him. And this is what I was trying to do, too, I guess: to listen to all the little sounds of her, because before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

— John Green

John Green Quotes

A while back, my brain started playing a game similar to the why game. This one is called What’s Even The Point.

— John Green

I am insulated from the weather by my house and its conditioned air. I eat strawberries in January. When it is raining, I can go inside. When it is dark, I can turn on the lights. It is easy for me to feel like climate is mostly an outside phenomenon, whereas I am mostly an inside phenomenon.

— John Green

Even the most extraordinary genius can accomplish very little alone.

— John Green

People ask me all the time if I believe in God. I tell them that I’m Episcopalian, or that I go to church, but they don’t care about that. They only want to know if I believe in God, and I can’t answer them, because I don’t know how to deal with the question’s in. Do I believe in God? I believe around God. But I can only believe in what I am in – sunlight and shadow, oxygen and carbon dioxide, solar systems and galaxies.

— John Green

It has been January for months in both directions, and I, of course, do not know what’s coming.

— John Green

Art isn’t optional for humans.

— John Green

Kurt Vonnegut, wrote that one of the flaws in the human character “is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

— John Green

I must choose to believe, to care, to hold dear. I keep going. I go to therapy. I try a different medication. I meditate, even though I despise meditation. I exercise. I wait. I work to believe, to hold dear, to go on.

— John Green

Disease only treats humans equally when our social orders treat humans equally.

— John Green

How can you regain confidence when you know that confidence is just a varnish painted atop human frailty?

— John Green

As a person, he told me, your biggest problem is other people. You are vulnerable to people, and reliant upon them. But imagine instead that you are a twenty-first-century river, or desert, or polar bear. Your biggest problem is still people. You are still vulnerable to them, and reliant upon them.

— John Green

The past is neither fixed nor fixable.

— John Green

Heartbreak is not really so different from falling in love. Both are overwhelming experiences that unmoor me. Both burst with yearning. Both consume the self.

— John Green

Halley’s comet will be more than five times closer to Earth in 2061 than it was in 1986.

— John Green

What’s “natural” for humans is always changing.

— John Green

Most of the energy that powers air-conditioning systems comes from fossil fuels, the use of which warms the planet, which over time will necessitate more and more conditioning of air.

— John Green

It occurs to me that technology often brags about solving problems it created.

— John Green

How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.

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I thought about that old Faulkner line that the past isn’t dead; it’s not even past. One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can’t ever quite get rid of.

— John Green

While the world wasn’t build for the humans, we were built for the world.

— John Green
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