John Green Quotes

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

What you see is what you see.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

There's never an ugly bubble.

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

If you met Faith Hill in person, you would think she's absolutely beautiful. And when you take her picture, you will see every flaw that you never saw in person. Those flaws not only become visible but magnified.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

I can't argue that Finnick isn't one of the most stunning, sensuous people on the planet. But I can honestly say he's never been attractive to me. Maybe he's too pretty, or maybe he's too easy to get, or maybe it's really that he'd just be too easy to lose.

Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens—but maybe if it’s how you see them,that’s how they really are.It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.