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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

John Green
Death, Real, Writing
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.68, Penguin

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

John Green
Death, Real, Thinking
John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

John Green
Death, Cancer, Honor
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

John Green
Death, Real, Loving Someone
John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.113, Penguin

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

John Green
Death, Remember, Humans
John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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