The Fault in Our Stars Quotes

Filed in Quote by on June 9, 2022

– The Fault in Our Stars Quotes –

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green tells the story of two teenagers who fall in love in spite of their illness.  Here are some quotes from “The Fault in Our Stars” to inspire you in life’s journey.

The Fault in Our Stars Quotes

Augustus “Gus” Waters and Hazel Grace are “star-crossed” young lovers in John Green’s mega-bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars.

Hazel is a despondent teen who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, but a tumor-shrinking medical miracle has given her a few more years. When she meets Gus at a Cancer Kid Support Group, she feels her tragic past will be completely altered.

The following are some quotes from this favorite best-selling book.

Augustus Quotes from the Fault in Our Stars

1. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” 

2. “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

3. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, that we’re all doomed,

and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

4. “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”

5. “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

6. “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

7. “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

8. “Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

9. “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

10. “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”

11. “And you say we don’t know each other.”

12. “Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked,

13. or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should’ve gotten more.

14. “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

15. “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.”

16. “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

17. “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”

18. “Maybe ‘okay’ will be our ‘always”

19. “That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”

20. “I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”

21. “Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”

22. “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.  And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”

23. “You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry.”

24. “You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

25. “But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”

26. “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”

27. “The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself,

as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”

Hazel Quotes from the Fault in Our Stars

28.  “Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears.”

29. “Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life.”

30. “And then there are books like ‘An Imperial Affliction’, which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

31. “Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.”

32. “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

33. “I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus?”

34. “I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.”

35. “As he read, I fell in love with the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

Isaac Quotes from the Fault In Our Stars’

36. “Not to complain or anything because I know a lot of us have it worse, but yeah, I mean, being blind does sort of suck.”

37. “I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.”

38. “Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.”

The Fault in Our Stars Quotes about Love

39. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

40. “You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you.”

41. “I love you present tense.”

42. “It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

43. “You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

44. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”

45. “But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”

46. “Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them…But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.“

47. “I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.”

48. “You can love someone so much… but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

49. “I love her. I am so lucky to love her.”

50. “…I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have…”

 51. “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust,

and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

The Fault in Our Stars Quotes about Life

52. “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

53. “And I fear that I won’t get either a life or a death that means anything.”

54. “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

55. “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.”

56. “You say you’re not special because the world doesn’t know about you, but that’s an insult to me. I know about you.”

57. “I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.”

58. “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”

59. “The world wasn’t made for us, we were made for the world”

60. “I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”

61. “Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.”

62. “The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention.”

63. “We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”

64. “Don’t worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway”

65. “Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.”

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