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John Green Quotes about Life

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We all use the future to escape the present.

We all use the future to escape the present.

Life, Alaska, Imagining The Future

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.47, Penguin

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Amy Mek‏ @AmyMek, twitter.com. June 4, 2015.

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

Inspirational, Life, Change

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Some people have lives; some people have music.

Life, Music, Real

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.28, Penguin

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

Life, Stars, Grateful

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.148, Penguin

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

Inspirational, Life, Hipster

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.229, A&C Black

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

Life, Romantic, Special

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.156, Penguin UK

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

Life, Hipster, Long

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

Life, Pain, Real

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.183, Penguin UK

I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.

Life, Talking, Appreciate

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.26, Penguin

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Inspirational, Life, Thinking

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.58, Penguin

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Life, Love Is, Keeping Promises

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Life, Hipster, Believe

"Paper Towns". Book by John Green, 2008.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

Life, Hurt, I Hate You

"Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by John Green and David Levithan, April 6, 2010.

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

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

Life, Real, Mean

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

Life, Giving Up, Mean

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

Life, Teenage, Alaska

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Life, Stars, Real

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.148, Penguin

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Life, Hipster, Sky

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.151, A&C Black

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Life, Depression, Real

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"The Teen Whisperer" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 9 & 16, 2014.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

Life, Thinking, Space

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.187, Penguin

Truth resists simplicity.

Life, Simplicity

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