Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.
John Green
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
Author
Businessperson
Critic
Editor
Film Producer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Podcaster
Singer
Indianapolis
Indiana
John Michael Green
Check
Checks
Rest
Takes
Sometimes
Like
Limb
Limbs
More quotes by John Green
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
John Green
The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral. Kaitlyn, I said. Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top? Kaitlyn, I said.
John Green
The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.
John Green
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
John Green
In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
John Green
I am a giant squid of anger.
John Green
...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
John Green
Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?
John Green
Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.
John Green
My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.
John Green
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
John Green
That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends they feel smothered it's always them and it's never you and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved it's over for them and just starting for you.
John Green
At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain. I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.
John Green
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
John Green
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
John Green
The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.
John Green
I don't think you're dying, I said. I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.
John Green
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
John Green
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
John Green
The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.
John Green
