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John Green Quotes

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“But emotional experience is as real and as valid as physical experience.”
— John Green, Paper Towns FAQ
Tagged: emotional experience vs. physical experience, emotional vs. physical, emotional experience, emotions, Mental Health, Mental Awareness
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Hope, hopeless, broken, inspiration, inspire
“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”
— John Green, Who's The Slow Learner?: Adventures In Independence
Tagged: College, Graduation
“And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“I know what she’s talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It’s like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don’t meet up right.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Pain, frustrations, Contemplation, Sadness
“I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”
— John Green, The 42 Most Remarkably Beautiful John Green Quotes
Tagged: Imperfect Humans, Imperfections, loving imperfect persons, Love
“I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.”
— John Green, David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Happiness, Hope For The Best, wish for happiness, Love & Happiness, Expressing Love
“I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another.”
— John Green, Zombicorns
Tagged: Love, Definition Of Love, Responsibility, Privilege, Loving Someone
“The success narratives we hear are almost always privileged narratives and they almost never acknowledge that privilege.”
— John Green, Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared
Tagged: Privilege, Stories of Success, Invisible Frameworks That Allow People To Rise
“The best connections aren’t just about feeling less alone; they’re about finding ways to look at the universe more broadly and enthusiastically.”
— John Green, via YouTube
Tagged: Connections, connecting with people, Connect With Others, Connecting To Nature, Viewing The World, Perspectives, Life
“Seeing the [Chicago] skyline made him feel what is called in Latin the mysterium tremendum et fascinans—that stomach-flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Chicago, Chicago Skyline, Breathtaking Sights, mysterium tremendum et fascinans, fascination, Urban Beauty
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Taking Chances, Do It, Going For It, Adventurous
“Crime is not actually caused by evil; it's caused by systematic disenfranchisement and poverty and lack of access to job opportunities and education.”
— John Green, I Kind of Hate Batman
Tagged: World, world issues
“From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply.”
— John Green, Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review
Tagged: beauty, Nature
“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Belief, Ideology, Survival
“Looking at something isn’t quite the same thing as looking at it through a lens.”
— John Green, Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London
“The job of reading is not to understand the author's intent; the job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves.”
— John Green, Life Is Like Pizza
Tagged: Empathy, Reading, Best Reading Quotes
“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: Loving People
“We have this weird thing in the world where you don’t get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.”
— John Green, A quote by John Green
Tagged: insults, Culture
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? …I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone love me?”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: Curiosity, Seeing inside, Perception, Attitude, Personality
“It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid--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.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Weather, Summer, humanity, Warm Weather, Good Day, Summer Days
“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, admiration, humor, beauty, Intelligence
“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: People, Relationship, Friendship, Liking People
“Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Life Quotes
“I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.”
— John Green, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
Tagged: Relationships, Digital Friendships, Online Friends
“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Personality, Love, character
“You can’t just change me and then leave.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Changing Someone, Leaving, Running Away
“We all romanticize the people we adore.”
— John Green, A quote by John Green
Tagged: Romanticize, Love, admiration
“I love you so much and I just want you to love me like I love you.”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: Love, Desire, admiration, Hope
“The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.”
— John Green, A quote by John Green
Tagged: World, Hope
“Yeah, that’s how I like to see the world: through smudged lenses.’”
— John Green, Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited
“You have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Metaphors, Writing, Words, Thoughts
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape 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
Tagged: Future, Fantasies, Escapism
“Maybe she was just matter, and matter gets recycled.

But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. ”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death, Falling Apart, Ghost, After Death, Trying To Understand Death, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Losing Her, Saying Goodbye, unknown, alive
“I told him that he was fearing something universal and inevitable, and how really, the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaningless of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One, Suffering, Pain
“Why do we celebrate the vigilant ambitions of individual billionaires?”
— John Green, I Kind of Hate Batman
Tagged: Power
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
— John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
Tagged: You Are Your Own, You Are Made Of Multitudes, You Are Contrasts
“I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, romance, Love & Happiness, Parting Ways, Farewell, goodbye
“Shouldn’t letting go be painless if you’ve never learned how to hold on?”
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Letting Go, Holding On, breakup, Break Up, Heartbroken, Pain, Love, pain in loving
“It seems to me that the stuff happening way down inside of us is difficult to talk about, partly because those experiences aren't really accessible by the senses.”
— John Green, What OCD Is Like(for Me)
Tagged: difficult to talk about, senses, difficult experiences
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