John Green Quotes

Life will find a way.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

If you play dead often enough, you've got a great will to live.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

The dead can't change, but you can.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.