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John Green Quotes about Sadness

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

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

John Green
Hipster, Sadness, Alaska

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

John Green
Anger, Sadness, Reason
John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.115, Penguin

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

John Green
Fun, Sadness, Gone
John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.144, Penguin

Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

John Green
Hurt, Love You, Sadness

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

John Green
Sadness, Joy, Illness
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.64, Penguin

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

John Green
Pain, Sadness, Loving Someone
John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

John Green
Real, School, Sadness
John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

John Green
Baby, Sadness, Joy
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin

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