Hank and John Said

I like the freaking encouragements. I really do. I just can’t admit it because I’m a teenager. John Green
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. John Green
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I think it’s a pretty human characteristic that we in a sense care more about the anticipation of [a] thing than the getting of that thing itself. Hank Green (X)
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Those electric moments come just often enough keep you going, to fight for the next one. It’s like an addiction, where it makes your life terrible in so many ways, but there’s this moment of exhilaration that you’re waiting for and then it comes and then you feel like it’s all been worth it.

John Green on writing, in this interview, which I believe took place in the Netherlands (an assumption based on all the Dutch in the description bar!)

Anyway I just thought this was a terrific explanation of how it feels to write. Now I ought to return to writing this behemoth of a dissertation.

(via hermionejg)
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I don’t know if this is true for anyone else but when I get into social situations where I feel uncomfortable I can be a little bit like ‘Hello hello I’m John Green I wanna be friends I wanna be friends I wanna be friends I can’t hide it I can’t hide it oh my God I wanna be friends with you so bad.’ And, uh, that’s scary for people. John Green (via tinychickendisease)
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That’s kind of why, as I’ve grown up, I’ve come to love change where I used to hate it. Now it’s just exciting: it’s bringing all new things that I get to experience. Hank Green (X)
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I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re going to do or become. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how amazing it will be, and imagining the future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasure of existence. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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