Last words are always harder to remember when...... Quote by "John Green"

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
— John Green Looking for Alaska

Other Quotes by "John Green"

There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. 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. God knows that’s what everyone else does.
— John Green The Fault in Our Stars

Tags: life, existence

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
— John Green

Tags: never, happy, responsibility, me

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
— John Green

Tags: think, value, people, great

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
— John Green

Tags: truth-is, people, wise, truth

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
— John Green

Tags: think, lose, crazy, money