black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREEN

Human Powerful Tongue
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
JOHN GREEN

Alone Forgiveness Help Love
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
JOHN GREEN

Love People Perfection Person Positive Worth
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREEN

Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
JOHN GREEN

Easy Forget Imagination People World
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
JOHN GREEN

Father
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
JOHN GREEN

Constellation Imagination Stars
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
JOHN GREEN

Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREEN

Favourite People Story
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
JOHN GREEN

Infinite One Liner
I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREEN

Except Philosophy Survival
Depression is a side effect of dying.
JOHN GREEN

Depression Die One Liner
Life works best when we think of people as people.
JOHN GREEN

Life One Liner People Thinking Work
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
JOHN GREEN

Book Reading
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREEN

Busy Ideas Yourself

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Green Quotes