Top 200 Hank Green Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “We strive to live in a world that places tremendous, even infinite value on a single human life. We do not live in that society, but I think part of the reason we strive for it is because we need to signal that our existence is intrinsically meaningful.”

— Hank Green

102. “My annoyance became frustration, which became anger, which became hate, and hate is a long-burning fuel.”

— Hank Green

103. “Well, if I weren’t so insecure, I would have had neither the opportunity nor the inclination to spend every day of my life getting really good at seeming confident.”

— Hank Green

104. “I think part of the point of loving someone is being able to deal with their brokenness.”

— Hank Green

105. “But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.”

— Hank Green

106. “My path forward was the opposite of theirs and theirs was the opposite of mine. It distilled itself down until all that was left was the argument. And maybe, lurking just beneath that, the hatred.”

— Hank Green

107. “I miss that life so much I would end every panda to get it back.”

— Hank Green

108. “I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it was cooler to be jaded than to be careful with other people.”

— Hank Green

109. “I was mad because this moment was supposed to be simple, and it was not.”

— Hank Green

110. “We need more completely sane people doing completely crazy things.”

— Hank Green

111. “I don’t even know what it would be like to not be attracted to a person because of their gender.”

— Hank Green

112. “Collections of individuals are beautiful, but they are as common as pelagibacter. Collections of ideas are veins of gold in our universe. They must be cherished and protected.”

— Hank Green

113. “Where is the president at this Time of Need! Probably playing shuffleboard or having her period!’ It’s not my fault I like shuffleboard so much. I always say, add up all the time every other president has spent golfing and tell me that my shuffleboard habit is bad for America.”

— Hank Green

114. “Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.”

— Hank Green

115. “I do things that are bad for myself, and my friends, and my health, and my world so I can get more power because I think I need that power to do good things.”

— Hank Green

116. “The clattering of humanity mixed in all its randomness was as relaxing to me as crickets chirping beside a rushing brook.”

— Hank Green

117. “Not true my friend! I have spent a fair amount of my life being entertained by cheesecake.”

— Hank Green

118. “The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.”

— Hank Green

119. “So you officially have an employee. They make your life easier, but only if you use them.”

— Hank Green

120. “I know that you’re going to have a very complicated lifer in the next weeks and months, and then you won’t have time for much else. But I also know that having someone that you care about and who cares about you might help keep you connected to reality.”

— Hank Green

121. “We are irrational beings, easy to manipulate if you’re willing to do whatever it takes. That’s exactly how terrorists convince themselves that murder is worthwhile. And the wound it left, it was larger than those lives lost; it was a wound we would all have to live with forever. The purity of my feeling for Carl was gone and I would never get it back.”

— Hank Green

122. “Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.”

— Hank Green

123. “Oakland Carl was the only Carl in the San Francisco Bay Area, and San Franciscans were, frankly, offended.”

— Hank Green

124. “And it turns out, time does eventually pass no matter how anxious you are.”

— Hank Green

125. “At some point that night, I glimpsed my most probable future. That one day, the most interesting and important thing about me would be a thing that I did a long time ago.”

— Hank Green

126. “Speaking to humans was so vastly different from tweeting... But this way we all had to sit in the same set of thoughts for over an hour. The connection felt very good.”

— Hank Green

127. “It turns out pundits don’t want to talk about what’s happened; they want to use what’s happened to talk about the same things they talk about every day.”

— Hank Green

128. “Give yourself time to think. Don’t fill it all up with podcasts and TV shows. Talk it out, think it out, be present.”

— Hank Green

129. “The worst thing about these people is that they didn’t usually feel fear themselves; they were just using it to get attention and grow their influence. As long as this tactic worked, they would never stop.”

— Hank Green

130. “The trick to looking cool is not caring whether you look cool. so the momentyou achieve perfect coolness is simultaniously the moment that you actually, completely don’t care.”

— Hank Green

131. “I feel like a small dog is eating my eyeballs from the inside!”

— Hank Green

132. “Radicalization follows fear and insecurity, and as dissatisfaction grew, fewer and fewer people were interested in my nuanced, chill takes.”

— Hank Green

133. “He was one of thousands of people who scraped by filtering reality through their ideology and then yelling really loudly at the internet.”

— Hank Green

134. “Power only does all its business of empowering when it’s perceived as a difference between the power of those nearby and, even more important, the power one previously had.”

— Hank Green

135. “Somehow she made me feel human, and that is, I’ve learned, one of the best things to be.”

— Hank Green

136. “One of the best things about having money is paying people to do good work.”

— Hank Green

137. “It’s so much easier for people to get excited about disliking something than agreeing to like it. The circle jerk of mockery and self-congratulation was so intense I didn’t even notice I was at its center. It was so easy to get people to follow me, and in the end, that’s what I wanted.”

— Hank Green

138. “I was really, deeply, honestly, and truly infatuated with having people pay attention to me.”

— Hank Green

139. “It’s so much easier for people to get excited about disliking something than agreeing to like it.”

— Hank Green

140. “It’s important to remember that we all change each other’s minds all the time. Any good story is a mind-altering substance.”

— Hank Green

141. “Stop thinking about my poop.”

— Hank Green

142. “Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress.”

— Hank Green

143. “To me it just seemed like that incurable ailment so many well-off dudes have, believing despite mountains of evidence that what the world truly needs is another white-guy comedy podcast.”

— Hank Green

144. “Much of the best art is about balancing between reflecting culture while simultaneously being removed from it and commenting on it. In.”

— Hank Green

145. “There’s that period in there, generally six to nine hours, in which you just aren’t anymore. Excuse me for having thought about this a lot, but how does it not terrify us that we spend a third of every day in a conscious unconsciousness, living inside a virtual reality created by our own minds but that somehow we don’t control? Like... what?!”

— Hank Green

146. “It’s basically just like every other room full of people you’ve ever been in, except exactly half of it looks extremely fancy and important, and the other half is just concrete and scaffolding.”

— Hank Green

147. “Now, of course, I know how easy it is to feel like you don’t matter if no one’s watching.”

— Hank Green

148. “Basically, do your best to mock and deride their connection to and appreciation of you because, deep down, you dislike yourself enough that you cannot imagine anyone worthwhile actually wanting to be with you. I mean, if they like you, there must be something wrong with them, right?”

— Hank Green

149. “The realization that we were actually doing this, and what it could result in, never really struck me. We just did it.”

— Hank Green

150. “One day, an internet company wants to sell books, and then ten years later they’re a threat to nearly every industry on earth.”

— Hank Green