Quote

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

John Green

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Effects
Dying
Side
Sides
Almost
Everything
Really
Depression
Effect

More quotes by John Green

Image
I figured something out, he said aloud. The future is unpredictable. Hassan said, Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.
John Green
Image
She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.
John Green
Image
In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
John Green
Image
We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.
John Green
Image
The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
John Green
Image
I think inspiration is always around it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.
John Green
Image
My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.
John Green
Image
Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.
John Green
Image
You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!
John Green
Image
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
John Green
Image
I was thinking about this girl you love so much, she said, And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.
John Green
Image
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
John Green
Image
Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
John Green
Image
You used, he said, and then took a sharp breath, to call me Augustus.
John Green
Image
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.
John Green
Image
You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular freaking ice cream instead of, like, ice cream that's made out of air and human hope.
John Green
Image
You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.
John Green
Image
That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.
John Green
Image
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, I said. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
John Green
Image
Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.
John Green