John Green Quotes

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

Night falls fast. Today is the past.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

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

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.

Love is the most common miracle.

She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

Books belong to their readers.

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

This one's for Alaska Young!

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.