Global Panorama

63 Raw & Heartbreaking Quotes From 'The Fault In Our Stars'

"I love you present tense."
Marisa Donnelly
August 6, 2016
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days. For that, I am grateful.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Dating, Love, Relationships
“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, The Fault in Our Stars
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: hurt, Love, Loss, Pain
“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Thoughts, Stars, Metaphor, Lyrical Language, My Favorites
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Pain, Human Connections, Human Connection, Scars
“Grief does not change you...It reveals you.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Pain, Human Connections, Scars, Grief, On Grief
“That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Pain, Feeling, Emotion
“I can’t tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Little Infinity, Infinity, Forever, Love, Expiring Love, Pain
“Maybe okay will be our always.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Love, Always, Forever Love, Expiring Love
“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Love, Broken Heart
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Little Infinity, Infinity, Forever, Love, Expiring Love, Pain
“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Little Infinity, Infinity, Forever, Love, Expiring Love, Pain, Heartbreak, Stars, In The Stars
“Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”
— Peter Van Houten, Antonietta Meo, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Pain, Weight Of Pain, Purpose Of Pain
“I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: True Love, Love, romance, Relationships
“I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught.

Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
“You're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Beautiful, Beautiful People, Beautiful Things, Simple Things, Simple Pleasures
“His every syllable flirted.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Flirting, talking, Language, My Favorites, Flirt
“I felt this weird mix of disappointment and anger welling up inside of me. I don't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Feelings, Pain, confusing, Feeling
“But you keep the promise anyways. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
— Isaac, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: promises, Love, Love & Relationships
“I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone. ”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, Distance, Young Love, Spaces Between
“I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”
— Isaac, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: promises, Love, Love & Relationships, True Love
“My dad understood my cancer the way I did: in the vague and incomplete way people understand electrical circuits and ocean tides.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: cancer, Understanding Cancer, sickness
“I told myself that imagining...would not affect the invisible reality going on inside of me, and that therefore all such thoughts were wasted moments in a life composed of a definitionally finite set of such moments.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Thought, Imaginning, Worrying, Overthinking, Moments
“I'm like a grenade, Mom. I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Death, Dying, Impending Death, Illness, cancer
“To be with him was to hurt him—inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me; I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Pain, Love & Relationships, hurt, Causing Pain
“People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. ”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients
“But there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.”
— Peter Van Houten, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Fault, Fault In Our Stars, humanity, Being human
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
— Peter Van Houten, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Fault, Fault In Our Stars, humanity, Being human, Death, Ending, Those Who Have Passed, Writing About The Dead, Language