John Quotes

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

"I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".

I love you present tense.

I do, Augustus. I do.

I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

Teenagers think they are invincible

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

"And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.