Top 200 Hank Green Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum.”

— Hank Green

2. “We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.”

— Hank Green

3. “Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.”

— Hank Green

4. “Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What’s excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly.”

— Hank Green

5. “Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.”

— Hank Green

6. “Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”

— Hank Green

7. “Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.”

— Hank Green

8. “Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.”

— Hank Green

9. “Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other.”

— Hank Green

10. “We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don’t like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.”

— Hank Green

11. “It’s almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.”

— Hank Green

12. “But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn’t matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.”

— Hank Green

13. “You are always a little bit wrong.”

— Hank Green

14. “I honestly don’t know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It’s like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.”

— Hank Green

15. “And when I think about that sunrise that I woke up to that morning, I just feel like I got as close to nowhere as I could get, and found out that it was more of a place than anywhere I’ve been in a long time.”

— Hank Green

16. “So the president is like, “Well, once upon a time it was Congress’s job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let’s let them decide.” Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the “Pour Water on Congress Act”.”

— Hank Green

17. “We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines.”

— Hank Green

18. “You sense and feel something different than I do, even if we lick the same kitten.”

— Hank Green

19. “People will hate you for no reason, or for bad reasons, or even for good reasons. People are torn apart by fame, and this is far beyond what most of them deal with. You’re talking about yourself like you’re a tool, but you’re a person too. And an evolving one. This will affect your life forever.”

— Hank Green

20. “I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water.”

— Hank Green

21. “You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That’s because I’m a dork. And I’m gonna choose not to explain myself.”

— Hank Green

22. “People will just share the things that confirm their ideology, and those things will always exist. Our reality isn’t about what’s real, it’s about what we pay attention to.”

— Hank Green

23. “Bring People together and promote a simple change and a better world.”

— Hank Green

24. “You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful.”

— Hank Green

25. “Sometimes it seems to me that the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty. And I know that’s not rationally true. But sometimes it’s okay for things not to be rationally true.”

— Hank Green

26. “You do not exist to please someone else. You exist for your own sake.”

— Hank Green

27. “We would like to build the idea of April May to help people deal with the reality of Carl.”

— Hank Green

28. “These men – sorry, but it usually is men – don’t care who gets hurt because they’re telling themselves a story in which they’re the hero.”

— Hank Green

29. “Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is of the same religion. Preventing gay people from getting married is not an expression of religious freedom. It’s an expression of religious oppression.”

— Hank Green

30. “I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.”

— Hank Green

31. “If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?”

— Hank Green

32. “When I think of the value that i appreciate and the value that I create, what matters to me most is how much I love people, and how much the people that I love love me.”

— Hank Green

33. “Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn’t hard to fool. It’s fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we’re not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.”

— Hank Green

34. “I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong.”

— Hank Green

35. “Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.”

— Hank Green

36. “So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.”

— Hank Green

37. “I think it’s pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we’ve changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.”

— Hank Green

38. “Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.”

— Hank Green

39. “John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.”

— Hank Green

40. “I’m also pretty impressive when I’m shoving the neck of a lute into someone’s chest cavity.”

— Hank Green

41. “Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I’m not a piggie!”

— Hank Green

42. “Do you know what we do with liars in Chemistry? We kill them.”

— Hank Green

43. “It seems no matter what I read I think this is not harry potter.”

— Hank Green

44. “What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?”

— Hank Green

45. “I had to make a decision. The kind of choice that you only get to make once and you can’t take back, and it makes your life totally different. And even if the path is clear, it’s still deeply unsettling.”

— Hank Green

46. “The solution is, everywhere and always, the decentralization and redistribution of all forms of power.”

— Hank Green

47. “Their voice came out of the watch, slow and then all at once, like ketchup.”

— Hank Green

48. “You can only pretend to be something so long before you become it.”

— Hank Green

49. “This book felt, at times, entirely impossible, but a lot of people made it possible. I’ll start with my son, Orin, who reminded me to take frequent breaks by pointing to my computer and saying, “Close it.”

— Hank Green

50. “Humans do think ahead more than any other animal, but that isn’t saying much. The oceans are filled with plastic, and the atmosphere is filled with carbon dioxide. We’ve built enough bombs to destroy everything ten times over, but apparently solar panels were just one expense too many!”

— Hank Green