Top 500 John Green Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”

— John Green

152. “I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.”

— John Green

153. “I still think that maybe the “afterlife” is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled.”

— John Green

154. “Study broadly and without fear.”

— John Green

155. “Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

— John Green

156. “You can’t just make me different and then leave. You can’t. You can’t change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.”

— John Green

157. “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

158. “I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It’s strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.”

— John Green

159. “Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.”

— John Green

160. “Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.”

— John Green

161. “The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”

— John Green

162. “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”

— John Green

163. “Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?”

— John Green

164. “But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”

— John Green

165. “I try to live life so that I can live with myself.”

— John Green

166. “After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”

— John Green

167. “You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don’t like outside. I’m an inside person. I’m all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.”

— John Green

168. “Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.”

— John Green

169. “Books belong to their readers.”

— John Green

170. “We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.”

— John Green

171. “Love is the most common miracle.”

— John Green

172. “Writing does not resurrect. It buries.”

— John Green

173. “I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb.”

— John Green

174. “It’s hard to believe in coincidence, but it’s even harder to believe in anything else.”

— John Green

175. “Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”

— John Green

176. “Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.”

— John Green

177. “Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”

— John Green

178. “That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”

— John Green

179. “The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe – these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they’re at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.”

— John Green

180. “The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.”

— John Green

181. “What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.”

— John Green

182. “Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.”

— John Green

183. “When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”

— John Green

184. “You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. “I’ll look it up.” No. With Me. At my house. Now.”

— John Green

185. “We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.”

— John Green

186. “You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”

— John Green

187. “I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”

— John Green

188. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – WILLIAM JAMES.”

— John Green

189. “When people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is, ‘you like stuff.’ Which is not a good insult at all, like, ’you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.”

— John Green

190. “Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.”

— John Green

191. “No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.”

— John Green

192. “Stop thinking about the landing, because it’s all about falling.”

— John Green

193. “I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that.”

— John Green

194. “I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”

— John Green

195. “I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”

— John Green

196. “If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone love me?”

— John Green

197. “And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.”

— John Green

198. “I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”

— John Green

199. “I’d rather wonder than get answers I couldn’t live with.”

— John Green

200. “This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.”

— John Green