“mysterium tremendum et fascinans, the fear and the fascination. The great and terrible awe.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.” — John Green Copy Share Image
If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what’s going to happen or when” — John Green Copy Share Image
“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Maybe there's something you´re afraid to say, or someone you´re afraid to love, or somewhere you´re afraid to go. It´s gonna hurt.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Partly, I kept forgetting, but also there was something else I couldn't quite identify, some way-down fear that taking a pill to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“the things that make other people nervous have never scared me. I’m not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say or someone you're afraid to love or somewhere you're afraid to go” — John Green Copy Share Image
This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'm going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether it was the general anxiety of being on a date (albeit one with my would-be date sitting five… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.” “But you… — John Green Copy Share Image
So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Imagine you're trying to find someone, or even you're trying to find yourself, but you have no senses, no way to know… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice in the matter.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark. — John Green Copy Share Image
“mysterium tremendum et fascinans-- that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used. — John Green Copy Share Image
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench!… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons you're so terrified about figuring out what you're gonna do with your life is that you think you're… — John Green Copy Share Image
feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you… — John Green Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share
“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a… — John Green Copy Share
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it… — John Green Copy Share
