Top 500 John Green Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

— John Green

352. “When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”

— John Green

353. “Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

355. “You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can’t say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.”

— John Green

356. “I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”

— John Green

357. “I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

359. “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

360. “And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.”

— John Green

361. “Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.”

— John Green

362. “And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn’t planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

364. “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

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

— John Green

366. “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

367. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

370. “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

371. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

375. “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

376. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

380. “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

381. “Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

384. “Crying is you, plus tears.”

— John Green

385. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

388. “All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes from life. Life begets life begets life begets life.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

391. “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

392. “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

393. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

395. “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

396. “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

397. “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

398. “That’s the great thing about being in the third grade. If you’ve got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you’re a genius.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

400. “Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it.”

— John Green