John Green Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.

  John Green

  Pain, Body, Consciousness

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

• Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

  John Green

  Hipster, Forever, Lasts

• …because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.

  John Green

  People, Miracle, Nerd

• I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

  John Green

  Believe, Thinking, Want

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.223, Penguin

• There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

  John Green

  Worry, Consciousness, Oblivion

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

• We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

  John Green

  Cancer, Water, Battle

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.266, Penguin

• Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

  John Green

  Ships, Consciousness, Barnacles

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.689, Penguin

• I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.

  John Green

  Taken, Air, Places You Go

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.139, A&C Black

• Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but it will eventually go out of print, and eventually the last person ever to read it will die, and then the characters will no longer live in any consciousness.Also, that is okay. That is good, actually. That is how it should be. One of the things the characters in this novel have to grapple with is the reality of temporaryness. What Gus in particular must reconcile himself to is that being temporary does not mean being unimportant or meaningless.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Character

• The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

  John Green

  Too Much, Way, Want

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

• The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

  John Green

  Miracle, Consciousness, Humans

  "This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl". Book by Esther Earl, Lori Earl and Wayne Earl, January 28, 2014.

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