Top 500 John Green Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”

— John Green

102. “Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”

— John Green

103. “The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What’s a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?”

— John Green

104. “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”

— John Green

105. “I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.”

— John Green

106. “I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”

— John Green

107. “The fundamental mistake I had always made – and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make – was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.”

— John Green

108. “Maybe okay will be our always.”

— John Green

109. “Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.”

— John Green

110. “He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.”

— John Green

111. “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.”

— John Green

112. “It hurts because it mattered.”

— John Green

113. “Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it.”

— John Green

114. “YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.”

— John Green

115. “If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.”

— John Green

116. “You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.”

— John Green

117. “There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”

— John Green

118. “There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.”

— John Green

119. “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.”

— John Green

120. “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”

— John Green

121. “True love will triumph in the end – which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.”

— John Green

122. “I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.”

— John Green

123. “The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”

— John Green

124. “Your now is not your forever.”

— John Green

125. “God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.”

— John Green

126. “I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that’s when you get shot down.”

— John Green

127. “I thought you hung the moon.”

— John Green

128. “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”

— John Green

129. “Whether you’re studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it’s about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what’s leads to a more fulfilling life.”

— John Green

130. “Suffering is universal.”

— John Green

131. “It’s bad for your brain not to unplug.”

— John Green

132. “The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.”

— John Green

133. “The truth hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.”

— John Green

134. “A desert blessing, an ocean curse.”

— John Green

135. “I spy with my little eye a great story.”

— John Green

136. “Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”

— John Green

137. “I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”

— John Green

138. “Pain demands to be felt.”

— John Green

139. “People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.”

— John Green

140. “So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.”

— John Green

141. “We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?”

— John Green

142. “There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.”

— John Green

143. “The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.”

— John Green

144. “Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.”

— John Green

145. “I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.”

— John Green

146. “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”

— John Green

147. “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.”

— John Green

148. “And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”

— John Green

149. “You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”

— John Green

150. “It is so hard to leave-until you leave.”

— John Green