Looking For Alaska Book Quotes - Page 3

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

John Green

Hipster, Sadness, Alaska

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

John Green

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

John Green

Real, Alaska, World

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, 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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Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

John Green

Wise, Real, Alaska

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.40, Penguin

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People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

John Green

Hipster, Alaska, Afterlife

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.79, 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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They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

John Green

Hipster, Alaska, Ideas

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.79, Penguin

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