Top 500 John Green Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.”

— John Green

402. “Crying is you, plus tears.”

— John Green

403. “Ma io credo nel vero amore, capisci? Non credo che a tutti sia concesso di tenersi i propri occhi o di non ammalarsi, ma tutti dovrebbero avere un vero amore, e dovrebbe durare almeno quanto dura la tua vita.”

— John Green

404. “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

405. “Break hearts, not promises.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

407. “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

408. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

411. “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

412. “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

413. “A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.”

— John Green

414. “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

415. “We live in hope – that life will get better, and more importantly that it will go on, that love will survive even though we will not. And between now and then, we are here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

418. “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

419. “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

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

— John Green

421. “I choose the labyrinth.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

423. “Ignorance is bliss.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

426. “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

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

— John Green

428. “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

429. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

434. “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

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

— John Green

436. “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

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

— John Green

438. “10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

442. “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

443. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green