John Green Quotes

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

Depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

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

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren.

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.

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? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anythin...

It's more impressive, I said out loud. From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once...

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love anything more interesting

You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, th...

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd do...

Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream tha...

Still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? th...

I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

LoveI'm in love with you, he said quietly.Augustus,I said.I am, he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of d...