The best Quotes by John Green

Because you simply cannot draw these things out for ever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

I've always liked quiet people. You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world.

"Why are you wearing a fox hat?"
"Because no one can catch the motherf-cking fox."

I'm Starting to realize that people 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.

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always'.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

There will come a time where all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings who 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 discovered will be forgotten. And all of this will have been for nothing. Maybe that time is coming soon, and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collaps of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced conciousness and there will be a time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivon worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

God I love rainbows.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

Dude, I don't want to talk about Lacey's prom shoes. And I'll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It's called a penis.

I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

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

But 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.

Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f-ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

You can love someone so much... but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.