Top 500 John Green Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

406. “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

407. “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

408. “I is the hardest word to define.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

410. “10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

413. “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

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

— John Green

415. “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

416. “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

417. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

428. “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

429. “At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

432. “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

433. “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

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

436. “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

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

— John Green

438. “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

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

— John Green

440. “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

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

— John Green

442. “I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.”

— John Green

443. “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

444. “Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.”

— John Green

445. “This star won’t go out. And it won’t. we won’t let it.”

— John Green

446. “She’s cute, I thought, but you don’t need to like a girl who treats you like you’re ten: You’ve already got a mom.”

— John Green

447. “I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it’s impossible to tell because I’m underwater.”

— John Green

448. “It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can’t figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can’t be sure, you know?”

— John Green

449. “Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”

— John Green

450. “So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.”

— John Green