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John Green Quotes - Page 4

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Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

Fall, Cells, Together

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.181, Penguin

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

Powerful, Tongue, Used

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.563, Penguin

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

Smart, Answers, Enough

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.125, Penguin

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

Past, Feels, Assured

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Love, Dream, Lying

"Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

I Hate You, Thinking, People

John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

Like You, Unforgivable, Easier

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

Lovely, Strange

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

Hipster, Sadness, Alaska

He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.

Happened

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.101, Penguin

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

Hurt, Helping, Hazel Grace

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.312, Penguin

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

Hipster, Live Life, Trying

I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn't fun either... Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle.

Fun, Struggle, Thinking

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?

Life, Memories, People

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Girl, Book, Fall

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

Real, Alaska, World

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

School, Simple, People

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

Looks, Goofy, Infinite

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.173, Bloomsbury Publishing

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

Fall, Together, World

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

Want, Towns, Kind

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.45, A&C Black

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

Believe, Thinking, Trying

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.38, Penguin

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

School, Alaska, Different

I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

Want, Responsible

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Time, Forever, Infinity

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

Home, Heart, Good Friend

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