John Green Quotes

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

~ John Green

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? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?

~ John Green

weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be

~ John Green

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.

~ John Green

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

~ John Green

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.

~ John Green

She said she couldn't handle it,’ he told me. ‘I’m about to lose my eyesight and she can’t handle it.’I was thinking about the word handle, and all the unholdable things that get handled. . . .'Well, to be fair,' I said, 'I mean, she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do.''I kept saying “always” to her today, “always always always”, and she just kept talking over me and not saying it back. It was like I was already gone, you know? “Always” was a promise! How can you just break a promise?''Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them', I said.Isaac shot me a look. ‘Right, of course. But you keep them anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promises anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?’I didn’t answer. I didn’t have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.

~ John Green

But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster

~ John Green

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. (pg. 18)

~ John Green

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t

~ John Green

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds, like her. An old claw-footed bathtub in a corner. So many holes everywhere that this place is simultaneously inside and outside.

~ John Green

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

~ John Green

Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees-breaking up isn't something that gets done to you, it's something that happens with you.

~ John Green

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

~ John Green

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.

~ John Green

. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

~ John Green

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

~ John Green

... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

~ John Green

He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.

~ John Green

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

~ John Green

...and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

~ John Green

He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

~ John Green

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 done were less real and important than they had been hours before.

~ John Green

Issac:I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.Computer: I don't understand-Issac: Me neither. Pause

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im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

~ John Green

You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.

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You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

~ John Green

You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.

~ John Green

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.

~ John Green

I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.

~ John Green

Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

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I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.

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(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.

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The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it

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I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

~ John Green

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

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No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

~ John Green

Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning she haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

~ John Green

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

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People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.

~ John Green