John Green Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• We just did an awesome job of not dying.

  John Green

  Jobs, Hipster, Dying

• Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

  John Green

  Death, Cancer, Honor

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin

• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

  John Green

  Pain, Talking, Alaska

• Is the labyrinth living or dying?

  John Green

  Hipster, Labyrinth, Dying

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

• Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Life, Depression, Real

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

• Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

  John Green

  Notebook, Dream, Memories

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

• She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."

  John Green

  Christian, Buddhist, Pain

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

• Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. 'No' I said. 'I used my Wish pre-Miracle.' 'What'd you do?' I sighed loudly. 'I was thirteen,' I said. 'Not Disney,' he said. I said nothing. 'You did not go to Disney World.' I said nothing. 'HAZEL GRACE!' he shouted. 'You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.' 'Also Epcot Center,' I mumbled. 'Oh, my God,' Augustus said. 'I can't believe I had a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.

  John Green

  Crush, Girl, Believe

• Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Real, Character, Support

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

• I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

  John Green

  Cancer, Thinking, Dying

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin

• Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

  John Green

  Reading, Night, Dying

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

• Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

  John Green

  Dying, Sides, Side Effects

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

• It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

  John Green

  People, Chocolate, Dying

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.18, Penguin

• If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

  John Green

  Jesus, Cancer, Kids

• Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

  John Green

  Dying, Peter, Vans

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

• Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!

  John Green

  Dying, Lasts

• And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Worry, Dying, Sides

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.685, Penguin

• The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

  John Green

  Dying, Littles, Pants

• That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

  John Green

  Labyrinth, Dying, Trying

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

• Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Worry, Dying, Sides

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.685, Penguin

• depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Cancer, Dying, Sides

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

• I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.

  John Green

  Dying, Remember, Forget

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.128, Penguin

• Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot Center,” I mumbled. “Oh, my God,” Augustus said. “I can’t believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.

  John Green

  Crush, Girl, Believe

• I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

  John Green

  Cancer, Wish, Dying

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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