J. Green Quotes

Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

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

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.

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

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.

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.