John Green Quotes About Leaving

Quotes about: Leaving

• It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Hipster

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.229, A&C Black

• Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

  John Green

  Real, Roots, Feel Good

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.234, A&C Black

• Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

  John Green

  War, Leaving, Legacy

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

• 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 You, People, Leaving

  Hank Green @hankgreen, twitter.com. January 09, 2011.

• And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

  John Green

  Leaving, Together, Paper

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.479, Penguin

• I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

  John Green

  Journey, Leaving, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.229, A&C Black

• It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t. I knew it, and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me. I hated her for leaving that night, and I hated myself , too, not only because I let her go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn’t have even wanted to leave. She would have just lain with me and talked and cried, and I would have listened and kissed at her tears as they pooled in her eyes.

  John Green

  Eye, Caring, Night

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.127, Penguin

• But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

  John Green

  Rocks, Sea, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.170, Penguin UK

• And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

  John Green

  Distance, School, Perfect

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

• And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

  John Green

  Perfect, Upset, Leaving

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.572, Penguin

• Leaving feels too good, once you leave.

  John Green

  Leaving, Feels

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.229, A&C Black

• ...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.

  John Green

  Leaving, Lines, Feels

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.262, A&C Black

• It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

  John Green

  Leaving, Paper Books, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

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