John Green Quotes

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

It is always disappointing when you miss a match.

Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.