Top 15 Inspirational John Green Quotes

The universe isn’t good or evil, but it is indifferent.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

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

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

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Without pain, how could we know joy?

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

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

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

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

I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

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

Books are the ultimate dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

There is no straight path in life, only ever-winding roads.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

Top 15 Inspirational John Green Quotes part 2

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

What a slut time is. She screws everybody.

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

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

To be alive is to be missing.

I believe the universe wants to be noticed.

Human beings crave connection above all else.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently mis-imagined.

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.’

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

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

I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

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

Most adults are not all there, either.

Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don’t have to be like, ‘Oh yeah, that purse is okay,’ or like, ‘Yeah, I like that band’s early stuff.’ Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Forever is composed of nows.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

You can’t choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you.

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

The world may be made better by books which are welcomed into the world, but the world may also be made better by books left unread.

If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

Don’t let moments go unnoticed, lest they slip through your fingers like grains of sand.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.

We’re all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.