John Green Quotes

The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

I've always been a person who wanted to withdraw from the world, because the changes I've been through, I just don't want to go through anymore.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.

The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom.

I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.

I think you could say that, a lot of players are insecure and sometimes we have this shield around us that we don't want to accept that we have problems sometimes or we don't know how to do things because we're these superheroes.

For about three or four years, I was in a lot more physical pain and stress than anybody knew. When I would meet people, I was kind of standoffish. That was because I was in a bit of a funk.