Top 500 John Green Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

402. “There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1... there is a a bigger infinite set of numbers between 1 and 2...”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

405. “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

406. “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

407. “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

408. “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

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

— John Green

410. “Humans are not the protagonists of this planet’s story. If there is a main character, it is life itself, which makes of earth and starlight something more than earth and starlight. But in the age of the Anthropocene, humans tend to believe, despite all available evidence, that the world is here for our benefit.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

412. “I choose the labyrinth.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

416. “Ignorance is bliss.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

418. “Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.”

— John Green

419. “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

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

— John Green

421. “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

422. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

427. “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

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

— John Green

429. “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

430. “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

431. “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

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

— John Green

433. “10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

437. “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

438. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green