Looking for Alaska 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

“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

“But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:death words

“I may die young . . . But at least I'll die smart.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:death youth intelligence

“Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:time pain

“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:God hell heaven

“people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:fear belief

“She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:fear

“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:strength hope

“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:friendship

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