World Quotes by John Green

“the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world”

— John Green

“It was a long list. The world contains a lot of dead people.”

— John Green

“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world.”

— John Green

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

— John Green

“You've gotta pick your battles in this world...”

— John Green

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

— John Green

“while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world.”

— John Green

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

— John Green

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

— John Green

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who…

— John Green

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

— John Green

It’s not fair,” I said. “It’s just so goddamned unfair.” “The world,” he said, “is not a wishgranting factory,

— John Green

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

— John Green

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I…

— John Green

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to…

— John Green

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

— John Green

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like…

— John Green

I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved…

— John Green

Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only…

— John Green

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had…

— John Green

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like…

— John Green

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting…

— John Green

It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds…

— John Green

Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because…

— John Green

What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like…

— John Green

We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not…

— John Green

There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing…

— John Green

The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished…

— John Green

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in…

— John Green

I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never…

— John Green

She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still…

— John Green

The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals…

— John Green

“its quite rare to find someone who sees the world the same world that you do”

— John Green

“The world contains a lot of dead people.”

— John Green

that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

— John Green

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

— John Green

“Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.”

— John Green

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

— John Green

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said…

— John Green

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

— John Green