The Fault in Our Stars Quotes

“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:lifedeathgood

“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:deathpastpresent

“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:deathmeaning

“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:deathlonelinessgrief

“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:deathheaven

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:death

“I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:death

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

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:deathwritinglanguageloss

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:time