Top 500 John Green Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.”

— John Green

352. “You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.”

— John Green

353. “The only way out is through.” And the only good way through is together.”

— John Green

354. “I don’t think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.”

— John Green

355. “The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.”

— John Green

356. “The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”

— John Green

357. “To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.”

— John Green

358. “I can’t imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can’t imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don’t even picture it. Instead I’m in it. How I feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.”

— John Green

359. “Nerd girls are the world’s greatest under-utilized romantic resource.”

— John Green

360. “I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you’re trying to be a writer because it’s the only apprenticeship we have, it’s the only way of learning how to write a story.”

— John Green

361. “You’re awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.”

— John Green

362. “One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.”

— John Green

363. “You never really find answers, just new and deeper questions.”

— John Green

364. “Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out.”

— John Green

365. “The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won’t be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either a life or a death that means anything.”

— John Green

366. “Everyone wanted me to feed them that story – darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.”

— John Green

367. “Bro, it’s dark. You can’t go to a strange building with a mysterious address in the dark. Haven’t you ever seen a horror movie?”

— John Green

368. “The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.”

— John Green

369. “In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don’t choose us, we choose them.”

— John Green

370. “People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?”

— John Green

371. “Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.”

— John Green

372. “We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.”

— John Green

373. “I am a brave warrior in my internal Battle of Valhalla.”

— John Green

374. “I’m not saying it was your fault. I’m saying it wasn’t nice.”

— John Green

375. “You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever – like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar Allan Poe quote: “The question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.” I guess she was trying to make me feel better, but I find mental disorders to be vastly overrated. Madness, in my admittedly limited experience, is accompanied by no superpowers; being mentally unwell doesn’t make you loftily intelligent any more than having the flu does.”

— John Green

376. “Crying is you, plus tears.”

— John Green

377. “The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”

— John Green

378. “Incluso el silencio tiene una historia que contarte.”

— John Green

379. “In die Augen kann man jedem sehen. Aber jemand zu finden, der dieselbe Welt sieht, ist ziemlich selten.”

— John Green

380. “My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.”

— John Green

381. “I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.”

— John Green

382. “All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.”

— John Green

383. “By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!”

— John Green

384. “Tiny Cooper is not the world’s gayest person, and he is not the world’s largest person, but I believe he may be the world’s largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world’s gayest person who is really, really large.”

— John Green

385. “It’s so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do.”

— John Green

386. “Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?”

— John Green

387. “Un dolor imperial” era mi libro, como mi cuerpo era mi cuerpo y mis pensamientos eran mis pensamientos.”

— John Green

388. “Yeah. What happens is the water spray creates a vortex, kind of like a hurricane. And the center of the vortex – the eye of the hurricane – is a low-pressure area, which sucks the shower curtain in and up. This guy did a study on it. Honestly.” “Now, that,” Hassan said, “is really interesting. It’s like there’s a little hurricane in every shower?” “Exactly.”

— John Green

389. “I realized in the silence that followed that I hadn’t spoken a single word – and even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching a movie about my life instead of living it. And then they went back to talking, everyone telling stories, laughing, I tried to smile and shake my head at the right times, but I was always a moment behind the rest of them. They laughed because something was funny. I laughed because they had.”

— John Green

390. “Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.”

— John Green

391. “I don’t really care how people read. I care if people read.”

— John Green

392. “I don’t mind worriers,” I said. “Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”

— John Green

393. “I choose the labyrinth.”

— John Green

394. “Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time.”

— John Green

395. “Your lack of ambition is truly remarkable.”

— John Green

396. “Mom, tell me what to say. Tell me what words to say to make you calm down about it.”

— John Green

397. “I think maybe you try to be odd on purpose. I think you like that. It makes you you and not someone else.”

— John Green

398. “I know. Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory.” That made me smile a little.”

— John Green

399. “You know that part of Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming’ where it’s, like, ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity’?” “Yeah, we read it in AP.” “I think it’s actually worse to lack all conviction. Because then you just go along, you know? You’re just a bubble on the tide of empire.” “That’s a good line.” “Stole it from Robert Penn Warren,” he said. “My good lines are always stolen. I lack all conviction.”

— John Green

400. “What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?”

— John Green