John Green Quotes

I’m finished. Go with somebody else.

There was a time in my life when I used to plan elaborately; not anymore. I gave up when I realised nothing was going my way.

I'm never going to run this again.

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

Groan and forget it.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

Americans are really good at throwing their hands up and walking away from things.

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

Once you give up, you know you're done.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.

You should despair and run away.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

Renunciation is in our blood.

The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.