weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green And I will forget her, yes. 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. John Green forgivingmomfall You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually. John Green latesmartmay She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. John Green hipstergirladventure I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing. John Green piecesmissingthinking I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores. John Green bookstoresindependentcareers Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story. John Green gratitudeessentialscrazy Night falls fast. Today is the past. John Green nightpastfall I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering. John Green parentsufferinghurt The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. John Green vaccinesrealhero You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. John Green gratefulstarslife So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. John Green advicepeopleinteresting Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. John Green paininspiringthinking 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. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. John Green girlbookfall It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar. John Green i-hate-youleavingpeople That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of. John Green i-hate-youpeoplethinking Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules. John Green caresimpletwo It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing. John Green teethrealgiving And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking. John Green talkingpeopleneeds Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? John Green broccolipainjoy How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all. John Green lovelystrange
