John Green Quotes

Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

“Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.”

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking 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.”

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!

The more I do my job, the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

I’m a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

.People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.

We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

My thoughts are just stars I can't fathom into constellations.

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

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.

The truth resists simplicity.

I was thinking about the word "handle" and all the unholdable things that get handled.

Russia chose Christianity as a national religion over Islam because of Islam's prohibition of alcohol. The ruler said, "Drink, is the joy, of the Russian.'

If you step on the proletariat for too long, you might end up with a communist revolution

You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.