“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempts to survive our deaths...The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”

John Green

John Green - “We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on...” 1

Similar quotes

“The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”

John Green
Read more

“In an industry where people merely *play* heroes, he was the real thing.”

Gary Fishgall
Read more

“The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.”

R.J. Palacio
Read more

“We did what people do. We stood side by side and smoked our little passive aggressive wishes for death, and stared down at our glory days. And then we set the world on fire, for a dream that felt so real is nothing but a risk never taken.”

Victor Giannini
Read more

“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”

Margaret Atwood
Read more