John Green Quotes About Illness

Quotes about: Illness

• 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

• The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

  John Green

  Art, Philosophy, Sick

  "John Green: novelist, vlogger, force for good" by Scott Shoger, www.nuvo.net. May 30, 2014.

• The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

  John Green

  Sadness, Joy, Illness

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.64, Penguin

• One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or these sad-eyed tragic people. And the truth is, people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. They're every bit as funny and complex and diverse as anyone else.

  John Green

  Wise, Cancer, Writing

• You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

  John Green

  Baby, Sadness, Joy

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, 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

• According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him.

  John Green

  Art, Philosophy, Pyramids

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

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