Life Quotes Quote by John Green, An Abundance of Katherines — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”

“The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.”

“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”

“This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.”

“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”

“Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.”

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”

““Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.”

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”