Top 500 John Green Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy.”

— John Green

252. “Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots.”

— John Green

253. “They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.”

— John Green

254. “Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.”

— John Green

255. “The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.”

— John Green

256. “We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”

— John Green

257. “I’m a bad boyfriend. She’s a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.”

— John Green

258. “In the best conversations, you don’t even remember what you talked about, only how it felt.”

— John Green

259. “I, a singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional tense.”

— John Green

260. “I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”

— John Green

261. “Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.”

— John Green

262. “All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.”

— John Green

263. “And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.”

— John Green

264. “When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.”

— John Green

265. “I’m not asexual. I’m arelationshipal.”

— John Green

266. “And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe.”

— John Green

267. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”

— John Green

268. “Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”

— John Green

269. “We all romanticize the people we adore.”

— John Green

270. “Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.”

— John Green

271. “Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven’t already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can’t eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.”

— John Green

272. “We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time.”

— John Green

273. “Life is a series of choices between wonders.”

— John Green

274. “Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn’t quite setting? That’s the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.”

— John Green

275. “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world monocular.”

— John Green

276. “Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.”

— John Green

277. “At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you’ll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”

— John Green

278. “Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We’re all just side effects, right?” “‘Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,’” I said, quoting AIA.”

— John Green

279. “There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer.”

— John Green

280. “People believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.”

— John Green

281. “We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.”

— John Green

282. “If drunk were cookies, I’d be Famous Amos.”

— John Green

283. “The worse the haircut, the better the man.”

— John Green

284. “Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying ‘I don’t want to deal with things today’ and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...”

— John Green

285. “You’re both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You’re the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You’re the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody’s something, but you are also your you.”

— John Green

286. “But you give your thoughts too much power, Aza. Thoughts are only thoughts. They are not you. You do belong to yourself, even when your thoughts don’t.”

— John Green

287. “No one says goodbye unless they want to see you again.”

— John Green

288. “Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.”

— John Green

289. “We’re invisible. I’ve never been here with someone else. It’s different being invisible with someone.”

— John Green

290. “It’s just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.”

— John Green

291. “What’s the meaning of life? Other people.”

— John Green

292. “It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.”

— John Green

293. “I think forever is an incorrect concept.”

— John Green

294. “Das Leben ist Sehnsucht.”

— John Green

295. “Love is just a shout in the void.”

— John Green

296. “She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.”

— John Green

297. “I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don’t scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it’s not.”

— John Green

298. “You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.”

— John Green

299. “It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

— John Green

300. “So why don’t you go home for vacations?? I asked her. I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.”

— John Green