The Fault in Our Stars Quotes

“even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:humanity

“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:action

“the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:pleasurefood

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:pleasure

“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:lightsun

“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortably as possible?”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:meaningartvalue

“The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:philosophyart

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:living

“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:sadness

“the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:dreamsambition