Labyrinth Looking For Alaska Quotes

• The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

  John Green

  Pain, Talking, Alaska

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• That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

  John Green

  Labyrinth, Dying, Trying

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.58, Penguin

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• There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

  John Green

  Suffering, Labyrinth, Mazes

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

  Simon Bolivar

  Alaska, Labyrinth, Bedtime

  Simon Bolivar's statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words; quoted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The General in His Labyrinth" (p. 267), 1990.

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• Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

  John Green

  Home, Self, Long

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

  John Green

  Hope, Teenage, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

  John Green

  Blow, Labyrinth, Way

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.158, Penguin

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• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

  John Green

  Alaska, Suffering, Labyrinth

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Penguin

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• At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

  John Green

  Alaska, Labyrinth, Mazes

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

  John Green

  Pain, Loss, Thinking

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

  John Green

  Hipster, Fall, Alaska

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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• How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Halloween, Alaska, Labyrinth

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “The General in His Labyrinth”, p.195, Penguin UK

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• She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."

  John Green

  Christian, Buddhist, Pain

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

  John Green

  Real, Live By, Looking For Alaska Book

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• We all use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Life, Alaska, Imagining The Future

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.47, Penguin

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• You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

  John Green

  Alaska, Imagining The Future, Labyrinth

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

  John Green

  Hipster, Blow, Labyrinth

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.158, Penguin

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• We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

  John Green

  Girl, Book, Fall

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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• Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

  John Green

  Mom, Fall, Forgiving

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

  John Green

  Christian, Buddhist, Alaska

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Penguin

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• We are greater than the sum of our parts.

  John Green

  Life, Teenage, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

  John Green

  Hipster, Alaska, Imagining The Future

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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