John Green Quotes

These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

My thoughts and I were of another world.

I feel like I'm away for much of my own life.

Everyone's in their own personal coma.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

I have X'd myself from your world.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

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.

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.

I've been in tournaments before when you've been away for a while, and you're not really playing, you're just training. Sometimes you can feel like you're not really part of it.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

I'm kind of in my own world.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.