John Green

I go to seek a Great Perhaps

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

“I have tried so hard to do right.”

François Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were ‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”

Maybe she could be mean...but the way she talked that first night about getting out of the labyrinth—so smart.

He thought of Democritus: “Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.”

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV

What a slut time is. She screws everybody.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.