--- title: "14 Falling apart Quotes By John Green" description: "14 Falling apart quotes by John Green. Plus more from John Green and more Falling apart sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/john-green-12_apart_everything-that-comes-together-falls-apa_2333110.jpg" --- > [Everything that comes together falls apart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/everything-that-comes-together-falls-apart/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/john-green-12_apart_everything-that-comes-together-falls-apa_2333110.jpg) > [Entropy increases. Things fall apart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/entropy-increases-things-fall-apart/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/135/john-green-12_entropy_entropy-increases-things-fall-apart-3224_3224808.jpg) > [memories fall apart too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/memories-fall-apart-too/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/806/john-green-12_fall_memories-fall-apart-too-1758056_1758056.jpg) > [And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/and-then-something-invisible-snapped-insider-her-and-that-which-had/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c7/john-green-12_fall_and-then-something-invisible-snapped-ins_1486109.jpg) > [“In the beginning, she had hauted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/in-the-beginning-she-had-hauted-me-haunted-my-dreams-but-even-now/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/john-green-12_dreams_in-the-beginning-she-had-hauted-me-haunt_591906.jpg) > [“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/because-memories-fall-apart-too-and-then-you-re-left-with-nothing-2/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c01/john-green-12_dreams_because-memories-fall-apart-too-and-then_2098610.jpg) > [It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/it-is-saying-these-things-that-keeps-us-from-falling-apart-and-maybe/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4df/john-green-12_fall_it-is-saying-these-things-that-keeps-us_703563.jpg) > [And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/and-i-will-forget-her-yes-that-which-came-together-will-fall-apart/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/john-green-12_colonels_and-i-will-forget-her-yes-that-which-cam_534504.jpg) > [In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/in-the-contemporary-world-where-things-fall-apart-and-the-centre-2/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/john-green-12_centre_in-the-contemporary-world-where-things-f_1108214.jpg) > [“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/someday-no-one-will-remember-that-she-ever-existed-because-memories/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/249/john-green-12_dreams_someday-no-one-will-remember-that-she-ev_1438886.jpg) > [Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/everything-that-comes-together-falls-apart-everything-the-chair-i-m/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b6/john-green-12_cells_everything-that-comes-together-falls-apa_697840.jpg) > [“eveything that comes together, falls apart," the Old Man said. "Everything. the chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/eveything-that-comes-together-falls-apart-the-old-man-said-everything/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1de/john-green-12_buddhism_eveything-that-comes-together-falls-apar_2694959.jpg) > [We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/we-are-all-going-i-thought-and-it-applies-to-turtles-and-turtlenecks/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/436/john-green-12_acceptance_we-are-all-going-i-thought-and-it-applie_1674643.jpg) > [Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/someday-no-one-will-remember-that-she-ever-existed-i-wrote-in-my/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bd/john-green-12_dream_someday-no-one-will-remember-that-she-ev_1801372.jpg) ## Other authors on Falling apart ## More by John Green > [Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/issac-i-dislike-living-in-a-world-without-augustus-waters-computer-i/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“I just want to stay away from people and read books and think”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-just-want-to-stay-away-from-people-and-read-books-and-think/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/she-smiled-with-all-the-delight-of-a-kid-on-christmas-morning-and/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/a-margo-for-each-of-us-and-each-more-mirror-than-window/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“No one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/no-one-ever-says-good-bye-unless-they-want-to-see-you-again/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/neither-novels-or-their-readers-benefit-from-any-attempts-to-divine/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/traffic-s-not-too-bad-on-sheridan-and-i-m-cornering-the-car-like-it-s/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“Praise God for good nurses.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/praise-god-for-good-nurses/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/so-i-was-ugly-i-was-never-fat-really-and-i-never-wore-headgear-or-had/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/nothing-has-ever-looked-like-that-ever-in-all-of-human-history/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/said-to-him-quietly-as-if-i-couldn-t-hear-or-something-dad-was-about/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-believe-humans-have-souls-and-i-believe-in-the-conservation-of-souls/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/he-was-hot-a-nonhotboy-stares-at-you-relentlessly-and-it-is-at-best/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-think-if-you-keep-the-box-closed-long-enough-you-do-kill-the-cat/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/imagining-the-future-is-a-kind-of-nostalgia-you-spend-your-whole-life/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falling-apart/john-green/#itemlist", "name": "14 Falling apart Quotes By John Green", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Everything that comes together falls apart.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/everything-that-comes-together-falls-apart/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/john-green-12_apart_everything-that-comes-together-falls-apa_2333110.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/john-green-12_apart_everything-that-comes-together-falls-apa_2333110.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/john-green-12_apart_everything-that-comes-together-falls-apa_2333110.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everything that comes together falls apart.” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Entropy increases. 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That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/and-i-will-forget-her-yes-that-which-came-together-will-fall-apart/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/john-green-12_colonels_and-i-will-forget-her-yes-that-which-cam_534504.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/john-green-12_colonels_and-i-will-forget-her-yes-that-which-cam_534504.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/john-green-12_colonels_and-i-will-forget-her-yes-that-which-cam_534504.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And I will forget her, yes. 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Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/in-the-contemporary-world-where-things-fall-apart-and-the-centre-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/john-green-12_centre_in-the-contemporary-world-where-things-f_1108214.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/john-green-12_centre_in-the-contemporary-world-where-things-f_1108214.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/john-green-12_centre_in-the-contemporary-world-where-things-f_1108214.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghosts but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away. falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/someday-no-one-will-remember-that-she-ever-existed-because-memories/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/249/john-green-12_dreams_someday-no-one-will-remember-that-she-ev_1438886.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/249/john-green-12_dreams_someday-no-one-will-remember-that-she-ev_1438886.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/249/john-green-12_dreams_someday-no-one-will-remember-that-she-ev_1438886.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed. Because memories fall apart, too. 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It was built, and so it…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“eveything that comes together, falls apart,\" the Old Man said. \"Everything. the chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. the cells and organs and systems that make you you - they came together, grew together and so must fall apart. the buddha knew one thing that science didn't prove for millenia after his dead: entropy increases. Things fall apart.\" We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. 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