Top 500 John Green Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “The senses must feast while there is yet hunger and whatever.”

— John Green

452. “I want to see you again tonight. But I’m willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.”

— John Green

453. “You don’t want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and I’ll tell you why. He doesn’t exist.”

— John Green

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454. “Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.”

— John Green

455. “I didn’t know what to say to her – I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.”

— John Green

456. “You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you.”

— John Green

457. “You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.”

— John Green

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458. “God, a lot happened since you lost your mind. Is that rude to say?” “Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”

— John Green

459. “Our hearts were broken in the same places. That’s something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.”

— John Green

460. “I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

— John Green

461. “He’s in that vast boy middle,” she said. “Like, good-looking enough that I’m willing to be won over. The whole problem with boys is that ninety-nine percent of them are, like, okay. If you could dress and hygiene them properly, and make them stand up straight and listen to you and not be dumbasses, they’d be totally acceptable.”

— John Green

462. “True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”

— John Green

463. “He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!”

— John Green

464. “It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can’t figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can’t be sure, you know?”

— John Green

465. “I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it’s impossible to tell because I’m underwater.”

— John Green

466. “I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.”

— John Green

467. “Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”

— John Green

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468. “Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.”

— John Green

469. “She’s cute, I thought, but you don’t need to like a girl who treats you like you’re ten: You’ve already got a mom.”

— John Green

470. “I tried – I swear I tried. But you didn’t want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.”

— John Green

471. “Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.”

— John Green

472. “This star won’t go out. And it won’t. we won’t let it.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

474. “She was up and down – from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.”

— John Green

475. “Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour – but in face I am that kind of person.”

— John Green

476. “The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.”

— John Green

477. “I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn’t let it kill me before it kills me,...”

— John Green

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

— John Green

479. “Mom sobbed something into Dad’s chest that I wish I hadn’t heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, “I won’t be a mom anymore.” It gutted me pretty badly.”

— John Green

480. “I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can’t due to deadness.”

— John Green

481. “I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.”

— John Green

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482. “We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.”

— John Green

483. “The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.”

— John Green

484. “The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”

— John Green

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485. “Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

487. “Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.”

— John Green

488. “I lit up like a Christmas tree, Hazel Grace. The lining of my chest, my left hip, my liver, everywhere.”

— John Green

489. “That’s why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”

— John Green

490. “I wouldn’t have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard – I’d have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.”

— John Green

491. “All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.”

— John Green

492. “When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can’t really fully and honestly take those back...”

— John Green

493. “She’s still taking on water.” A desert blessing, an ocean curse.”

— John Green

494. “Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.”

— John Green

495. “The true ninja doesn’t make a splash at all.”

— John Green

496. “She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.”

— John Green

497. “To be human is to catch the falling person.”

— John Green

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498. “We are all going,” McKinley said to his wife, and we sure are. There’s your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.”

— John Green

499. “I don’t know where there is, but I know it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.”

— John Green

500. “If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.”

— John Green

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