29 John Green Quotes On Life, Love That Will Give You The Feels

The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Town, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and more—in his finest books, John Green has given us innumerable memorable quotes about love, life, friendship and everything in between.

Here are some of the best John Green Quotes:

“We all matter – maybe less than a lot but always more than none.”

― John Green quotes an Abundance of Katherines

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

— John Green quotes from Looking for Alaska

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

— John Green quotes The Fault in Our Stars

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

— John Green quotes Looking for Alaska

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

— John Green quotes Paper Towns

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“Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”

― John Green quotes Will Grayson Will Grayson

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“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

— John Green quotes in The Fault in Our Stars

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

— John Green quotes The Fault in Our Stars

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

— John Green quotes An Abundance Of Katherines

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

— John Green quotes An Abundance Of Katherines

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

— John Green quotes The Fault in Our Stars

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“I don’t think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”

— John Green quotes An Abundance Of Katherines

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“True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”

— John Green quotes in Looking for Alaska

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"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."

— John Green quotes The Fault In Our Stars

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“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 quotes The Fault in Our Stars

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

— John Green quotes in The Fault in Our Stars

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“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 quotes in Looking for Alaska

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“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

― John Green quotes in The Fault in Our Stars

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“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

― John Green quotes for Instagram (this quote in his books; but worth mentioning)

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“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

― John Green quotes from Paper Towns

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

— John Green quotes Paper Towns

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

— John Green quotes The Fault in Our Stars

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“Because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.” –

— John Green quotes An Abundance Of Katherines

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“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”

― John Green quotes Paper Towns

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“Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”

― John Green quotes The Fault in Our Stars

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“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape 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 quotes Looking for Alaska

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