John Green Quotes

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.

If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It's not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I've had the test for contact lenses, but I haven't found a half-day where I can go to the optician.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said.

I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.