John Green Quotes About Oblivion

Quotes about: Oblivion

• I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

  John Green

  Love, Romantic, Eye

• I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn't fun either... Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle.

  John Green

  Fun, Struggle, Thinking

• the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

  John Green

  Suffering, Nihilism, Problem

• Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.

  John Green

  Dark, Men, People

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, 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

• I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

  John Green

  Stars, Love You, Happy Valentines Day

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.90, Penguin

• I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

  John Green

  Dark, Men, Blind

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

• The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

  John Green

  Real, Genius, Levels

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.198, Penguin

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