The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention – car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

— John Green

John Green Quotes

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

— John Green
Sad Sad About Life

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

— John Green
Deep About Life Fiction Expectations About Reality

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it 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.

— John Green
Motivational Time Deep About Life Fiction Expectations

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

— John Green
Dreaming Big New Beginnings Encouraging for Students Carpe Diem Curiosity

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

— John Green
Cute Love Romantic for Her Short Love for Her

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone, anyone, love me?

— John Green
Sad About Life Depression Lonely

What’s the point in being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

— John Green
Boldness Intention Encouraging for Students Carpe Diem

Easy comfort isn’t comforting.

— John Green

A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

— John Green

Nothing’s wrong. Everything’s right. Things couldn’t be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn’t be righter.

— John Green

The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention – car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

— John Green

Love is tied to truth.

— John Green

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime...

— John Green

I mean, if Hardee’s is urban, I’m not sure I want to see rural.

— John Green

Tiny Cooper is splayed out across the thin carpet, using his backpack as a pillow. He’s wearing skinny jeans, which look very much like denim sausage casings.

— John Green

I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.

— John Green

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

— John Green
Real

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

— John Green

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

— John Green

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, “Hoc est corpus,” were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as “Hocus-pocus.”

— John Richard Green
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