John Green Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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

• Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

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  Romantic, Beautiful, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.19, Penguin UK

• The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

  John Green

  Towns, Planning, Anticipation

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.160, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.

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  Memories, Real, Taken

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.262, Penguin

• It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

  John Green

  School, Simple, People

• 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.

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  Leaving, Together, Paper

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

• The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

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  Taken, Remember, Pleasure

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.262, Penguin

• Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

  John Green

  Hands, Ducks, Together

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

• I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

  John Green

  Distance, Safe, Want

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.32, Penguin

• We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek. “Augustus!” I said. “Friendly,” he said. He pushed himself up again and really stood this time, then took two steps over to my mom and said, “Always a pleasure to see you,” and my mom opened her arms to hug him, whereupon Augustus leaned in and kissed my mom on the cheek. He turned back to me. “See?” he asked.

  John Green

  Mom, Kissing, Two

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.76, Penguin

• My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

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  Parent, Faces, Pleasure

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.106, A&C Black

• The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

  John Green

  Long, Outcomes, Pleasure

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