John Green Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

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

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

  John Green

  Inspiring, Pain, Thinking

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.35, Penguin

• I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

  John Green

  Hurt, Parent, Suffering

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.116, Penguin

• 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

• 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

• the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

  John Green

  Suffering, Nihilism, Problem

• 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

• 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.

• Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.

  John Green

  Jesus, Promise, Suffering

• In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.

  John Green

  Love, Song, Strong

• But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

  John Green

  Suffering, Band, Tone

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.439, Penguin

• But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Mean, Roots, Long

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

• 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

• The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.

  John Green

  Mistake, Suffering, Wish

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.139, Penguin UK

• What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.

  John Green

  Kissing, Suffering, Said

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.54, Penguin UK

• I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

  John Green

  Believe, Writing, Fire

• Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.

  John Green

  Pain, Suffering, New Life

• We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Suffering, Matter, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

• Suffering is universal.

  John Green

  Hipster, Suffering, Universal

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.84, Penguin

• 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

• 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

• ...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, Lying

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.67, Penguin

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