Top 500 John Green Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I don’t really care how people read. I care if people read.”

— John Green

402. “I choose the labyrinth.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

404. “In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant.’ Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

407. “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

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

— John Green

409. “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

410. “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

411. “The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.”

— John Green

412. “That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”

— John Green

413. “Is that so?” he asked. “I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.”

— John Green

414. “Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close.”

— John Green

415. “It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that’s what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn’t exist.”

— John Green

416. “Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”

— John Green

417. “Your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to.”

— John Green

418. “We all matter – maybe less then a lot but always more than none.”

— John Green

419. “10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.”

— John Green

420. “It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone’s life, it only gets better. You just don’t get to be a part of it.”

— John Green

421. “We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.”

— John Green

422. “Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.”

— John Green

423. “We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend.”

— John Green

424. “You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”

— John Green

425. “Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.”

— John Green

426. “Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.”

— John Green

427. “She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.”

— John Green

428. “Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.”

— John Green

429. “But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

— John Green

430. “The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I’ve got sarcastic company.”

— John Green

431. “You seemed locked inside of your mind, and I can’t know what’s going on in there, and it scared me.”

— John Green

432. “En realidad nadie entiende a nadie. Todos estamos encerrados en nosotros mismos.”

— John Green

433. “In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

— John Green

434. “Oblivion is inevitable and pain demands to be felt.”

— John Green

435. “You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.”

— John Green

436. “Nothing is as boring as other people’s dreams.”

— John Green

437. “The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.”

— John Green

438. “The senses must feast while there is yet hunger and whatever.”

— John Green

439. “I missed everybody. To be alive is to be missing.”

— John Green

440. “You don’t want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and I’ll tell you why. He doesn’t exist.”

— John Green

441. “I didn’t know what to say to her – I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.”

— John Green

442. “God, a lot happened since you lost your mind. Is that rude to say?” “Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”

— John Green

443. “Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.”

— John Green

444. “Meriwether Lewis’s last words were, ‘I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.’ I don’t doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.”

— John Green

445. “I want to see you again tonight. But I’m willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.”

— John Green

446. “You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.”

— John Green

447. “You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you.”

— John Green

448. “I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

— John Green

449. “He’s in that vast boy middle,” she said. “Like, good-looking enough that I’m willing to be won over. The whole problem with boys is that ninety-nine percent of them are, like, okay. If you could dress and hygiene them properly, and make them stand up straight and listen to you and not be dumbasses, they’d be totally acceptable.”

— John Green

450. “He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!”

— John Green