Alaska Quotes - Page 2

• There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

  John Green

  Greater, Destroyed

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

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• How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Halloween, Labyrinth, Spooky

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

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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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• So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

  John Green

  Rain, Unrequited Love, Thinking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.71, Penguin

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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, World, Awful

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Imagining The Future, Labyrinth, Use

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

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

  Simon Bolivar

  Labyrinth, Bedtime, Damn

  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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• They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

  John Green

  Hipster, Ideas, Black

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

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• A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Husband, Heart, Lovers

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• A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

  Honore de Balzac

  Running, Husband, Thinking

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• But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

  Amelia Barr

  Making Love, World, Lovers

  Amelia E. Barr (2009). “The Belle of Bowling Green”, p.61, Wildside Press LLC

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• A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Atoms, Way

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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

  John Green

  Hipster, Imagining The Future, Labyrinth

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

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• There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Knowing, Done, Useless

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

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

  John Green

  Labyrinth, Mazes, Looks

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

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• I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

  John Green

  Looking For Alaska Book, Alaska Young

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.57, Penguin

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• The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

  John Green

  Hipster, Caring, Knowing

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.160, Penguin

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

  John Green

  Hipster, Sadness, Unhappy Person

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• What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

  John Green

  Pain, Real, Heart

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.110, Penguin

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• It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

  Gloria Stuart

  Rain, Struggle, Great Love

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

  John Green

  Hipster, Afterlife, People

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

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• People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

  John Green

  Ideas, Afterlife, People

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

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• I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Attitude, Looks, Lovers

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• The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

  John Philip Sousa

  Average, Lovers, Prevailing

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• There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.

  Carol Alt

  Running, Ends, Certain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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