J. Green Quotes

That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.

That is really the freedom that allows you to create something that is exciting because who knows what's true?

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

I've always felt a bit weird, very shy.

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

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

Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

Welcome to the degeneration of my mind.

If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Does my eye look okay to you?

I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

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.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.