Fear Quotes by John Green

“I fear oblivion”

— John Green

Afraid to love

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Study broadly and without fear.

— John Green

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

— John Green

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

— John Green

“Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”

— John Green

“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”

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“The fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what’s going to happen or when”

— John Green

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

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“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.”

— John Green

“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice in the matter.”

— John Green

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

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“mysterium tremendum et fascinans-- that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.”

— John Green

maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

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“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…

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feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you…

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“So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action [...] She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been…

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“I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare…

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I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare…

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“Partly, I kept forgetting, but also there was something else I couldn't quite identify, some way-down fear that taking a pill to…

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“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.…

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“My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid…

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“I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is…

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“but I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. The oblivion fear is something else, fear that…

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“Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe…

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“And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I…

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All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without…

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“Like me. Margo Roth Spiegelman was a person, too. And I had never quite thought of her that way, not really; it…

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“Sure, I fear earthly oblivion. But, I mean, not to sound like my parents, but I believe humans have souls, and I…

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This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that…

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I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

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“I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”

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“mysterium tremendum et fascinans, the fear and the fascination. The great and terrible awe.”

— John Green

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

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“I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.”

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“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.”

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If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

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“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say or someone you're afraid to love or somewhere you're afraid to go”

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“the things that make other people nervous have never scared me. I’m not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies…

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This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run,…

— John Green