John Quotes

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.

For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

i wanted more time so we could fall in love.

It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

Does my eye look okay to you?

You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much.

Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend.

The still, sad music of humanity.

And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.

Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.

I can't die now, I have so much work to do.

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon.

He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.