John Green Quotes About Sadness

Quotes about: Sadness

• What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

  John Green

  Hipster, Sadness, Alaska

• Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

  John Green

  Hurt, Love You, Sadness

• The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

  John Green

  Fun, Sadness, Gone

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.144, Penguin

• 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

• More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

  John Green

  Pain, Sadness, Loving Someone

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

• 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

• I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

  John Green

  Real, School, Sadness

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

• The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

  John Green

  War, Silly, Wine

• No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

  John Green

  Anger, Sadness, Reason

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.115, Penguin

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