John Green Quotes

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

The meaning of life is life.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.

The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.