Poetry Quote by John Green — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.”

“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.”

“So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.”

“Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.”

“We all romanticize the people we adore.”

“Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete freedom.”

“Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.”

“Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....”

“because two bodies, naked and entwined,”

“When it comes, you’ll be dreaming”

“Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.”