Top 500 John Green Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”

— John Green

Featured in: Life Quotes, Effort Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Achievement Quotes, Self-Improvement Quotes

2. “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

— John Green

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Clever Quotes

3. “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”

— John Green

Featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Imagination Quotes, Quotes About Stars

4. “The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.”

— John Green

Featured in: Quotes About Night

5. “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

— John Green

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Time Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Fiction Quotes, Expectations Quotes

6. “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

— John Green

7. “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

— John Green

Featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Fiction Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Quotes About Reality

8. “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

— John Green

9. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Quotes About Books And Reading, Fiction Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Romantic Quotes

10. “That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”

— John Green

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Pain Quotes

11. “Some people have lives; some people have music.”

— John Green

Featured in: Music Quotes

12. “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

— John Green

Featured in: Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

13. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

— John Green

Featured in: Feel Better Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

14. “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.”

— John Green

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Cute Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Clever Quotes, Different Quotes

15. “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

— John Green

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Changing the World Quotes

16. “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

— John Green

17. “One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.”

— John Green

18. “You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

— John Green

Featured in: Grateful Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Caring Quotes, Love You Quotes

19. “You can love someone so much... But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

— John Green

Featured in: Real Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

20. “Imagine others complexly.”

— John Green

Featured in: Empathy Quotes

21. “Whatever, great day today. Best day of my life.”

— John Green

22. “I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”

— John Green

23. “The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.”

— John Green

Featured in: Crazy Quotes, Hipster Quotes

24. “A paper town for a paper girl.”

— John Green

25. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”

— John Green

Featured in: Cute Quotes, Positive Good Morning Quotes

26. “Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”

— John Green

Featured in: Sarcastic Quotes

27. “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

— John Green

28. “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.”

— John Green

Featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Carpe Diem Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

29. “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.”

— John Green

Featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Hurt Quotes

30. “Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”

— John Green

31. “What’s the point in being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.”

— John Green

Featured in: Intention Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Carpe Diem Quotes

32. “As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”

— John Green

33. “Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”

— John Green

34. “I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”

— John Green

Featured in: Cute Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Friendship Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes

35. “Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone, anyone, love me?”

— John Green

Featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Depression Quotes, Lonely Quotes

36. “She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”

— John Green

37. “We are greater than the sum of our parts.”

— John Green

38. “Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.”

— John Green

Featured in: Romantic Quotes

39. “You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.”

— John Green

Featured in: Empathy Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Recovery Quotes, You Are Loved Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

40. “That smile could end wars and cure cancer.”

— John Green

Featured in: Cute Love Quotes, Romantic Quotes for Her, Short Love Quotes for Her

41. “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

— John Green

42. “At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.”

— John Green

43. “You will go to the paper towns and never come back.”

— John Green

44. “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”

— John Green

45. “We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”

— John Green

46. “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

— John Green

47. “I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.”

— John Green

48. “Use your words.”

— John Green

49. “Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou.”

— John Green

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

— John Green