John Green Quotes

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

Busy Ideas Yourself
Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
JOHN GREEN

Pain Poetry Rain Soul
The good times and the bad times both will pass.
JOHN GREEN

Change One Liner Struggle Time
There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
JOHN GREEN

Love Matter People World
There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
JOHN GREEN

Die Glory Honor Ill
Crying is you, plus tears.
JOHN GREEN

Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears
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.
JOHN GREEN

Book Forever Love Reading Wait
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
JOHN GREEN

Believe Couple Person Special
The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
JOHN GREEN

Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
JOHN GREEN

Cry Devote Life Love People Try
Maybe there is 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.
JOHN GREEN

Afraid Hurt Love Matter
It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
JOHN GREEN

Break Up Leaving World
Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
JOHN GREEN

Die Enjoyment Smoke
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
JOHN GREEN

Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
JOHN GREEN

Love People Perfection Person Positive Worth
I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
JOHN GREEN

Die Inspirational One Liner Smart Young
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREEN

Gift People Responsiblity
I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
JOHN GREEN

Beautiful Decision Enjoyment Existence Myself People Pleasure
You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREEN

Love Missing People
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
JOHN GREEN

Algorithm Book Invention
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
JOHN GREEN

Anniversary Couple Forever Number Valentine
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
JOHN GREEN

Memories Pleasure Remember
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
JOHN GREEN

Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
JOHN GREEN

Memories Paper Town
Everything that comes together falls apart.
JOHN GREEN

Break Up Broken Heart Fall One Liner Togetherness
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREEN

Love Survival
I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
JOHN GREEN

Humour Run Smoke

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