41 Achingly Beautiful John Green Quotes On Life And Love

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A collection of heartwarming and equally heartbreaking quotes on life and love from John Green, the New York Times bestselling author of <em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman",

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days. For that, I am grateful.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: getting hurt, determined, sure, being sure

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. 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 be…”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love

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

— John Green, goodreads.com

Tagged: Hope, hopeless, broken, inspiration, inspire

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Quote, Thomas Edison, Beautiful, travel, Explore

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most 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 hopel…”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Looking At Her, Sleeping, Innocence, Crush

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

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: People, Idealism, Love, Relationships, Fantasy

“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, amazon.com

“This is why we call people exes, I guess – because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it’s too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it’s not, because there’s no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”

— John Green, David Levithan, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships

“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com

Tagged: Passionate People, Intense People, Living With Intensity, Longing To Be Someone Else

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

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: forgiveness, Peace Of Mind, Anger

“I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if shed taken the part of him that cr…”

— John Green, Colin, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Loss, Depression, Pain, break ups

“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Perfect Words

“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

Tagged: Thoughts, Stars, Metaphor, Lyrical Language, My Favorites

“The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you in the very quick and…”

— John Green, Colin, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Loss, Depression, Pain, break ups

“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: First Lines, first lines of books

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

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Falling In Love

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Leaving, Leaving Home, Moving On, Saying Goodbye, My Favorites

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: My Favorites, Pain, Human Connections, Human Connection, Scars

“Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”

— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com

Tagged: surviving, Moving On, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength

“I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Fathers, Family, proud, Parents

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

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Memory, Experience, What Happened, The Past

“Grief does not change you...It reveals you.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Human Connections, Scars, Grief, On Grief

“He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment—because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: kiss, Kissing, Moments Before, Moments Before Kissing, Before The Kiss

“That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

Tagged: My Favorites, Pain, Feeling, Emotion

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

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Missing You, Letting Go, Missing Someone, Pain

“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.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Mirrors, Seeing Yourself, Truth, Being Truthful

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

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

Tagged: My Favorites, Love, Broken Heart

“Just remember that sometimes the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Identity, Thoughts, Perceptions