John Green Quotes

“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.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:life future present

“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

topic:life death suffering

“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

topic:life

“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:life death good

“Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:death past present

“Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were 'I go to seek a Great Perhaps.' That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:death travel

“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:death

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

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:death meaning

“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’s death was Augustus Waters.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:death loneliness grief

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

― John Green, Paper Towns

topic:death living adventure

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