John Green Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

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  You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

  John Green

  Moving On, Break Up, I Miss You

• We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.

  John Green

  Sad, Pain, Real

• 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.

  John Green

  Memories, Real, Taken

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

• Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

  John Green

  Change, Grief, Loss

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.162, Penguin

• 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

• I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

  John Green

  Loss, Tragedy, Finals

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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