Looking for Alaska is John Green’s first novel, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile. Based on his time at Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel as a result of his desire to create meaningful young adult fiction. Profoundly inspirational looking for Alaska quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Looking For Alaska Quotes
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
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. John Green
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
When adults say, Teenagers think they are invincible with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. John Green
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
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
I’ve always liked quiet people You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world. John Green
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. John Green
But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about. Does that make sense? John Green
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books. John Green
The hardest part about pranking, Alaska told me once, is not being able to confess. But I could confess on her behalf now. And as I slowly made my way out of the gym, I told anyone who would listen, No. It wasn’t us. It was Alaska. John Green
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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 hurricane. John Green
Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors. John Green
They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting. John Green
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
I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart. John Green
So this guy, I said, standing in the doorway of the living room. Francois Rabelais. He was a 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. John Green
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
All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I’ve got sarcastic company. Sit down, will ya? John Green
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. John Green
That swan is the spawn of Satan. Never get closer to it than we are now. John Green
Francois Rabelais. He was a 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. John Green
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always win the war. John Green
At some point, you just pull off the Band Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved. John Green
Funny thing, talking to ghosts, he said. You can’t tell if you’re making up their answers or if they are really talking to you. John Green
He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. 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. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart. John Green
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more than minor life. John Green
And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart. John Green
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. John Green
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war. John Green
So we gave up. I’d finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We’d failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved. John Green
I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God. John Green
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth? Simon Bolivar
I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit. John Green
He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. Miles Halter
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, I want to go too! I want to go too! And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words We are all going. John Green
She forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. 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
That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them. John Green
That’s the mystery, isn’t it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Alaska Young
We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did. John Green
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth. John Green
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. John Green
At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts but then it’s over and you’re relieved. John Green
It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? John Green
It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. John Green
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails. John Green
This is so much fun but I’m so sleepy to be continued? John Green
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape 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. John Green
After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. John Green
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
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. John Green
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. John Green
The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. John Green.
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
Which is he trying to escape the world or the end of it? John Green
I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn’t hate people who watched or played them. John Green
I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart. John Green
After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. John Green
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. John Green
I know so many last words. But I will never know hers. John Green
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze. John Green
That is the fear I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without. John Green
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken. John Green
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze. John Green
Hank hugged me and said, At least it was instant. At least there wasn’t any pain. John Green
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps. John Green
I still think that maybe the afterlife is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled. John Green
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer. John Green
You shall love your neighbour with your crooked heart, it says so much about love and brokeness it is perfect. John Green
Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you’re left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else’s, dying again. John Green
It cannot be much harder than being left behind. John Green
Don’t you know who you love, Pudge? You love the girl who makes you laugh and shows you porn and drinks wine with you. You don’t love the crazy, sullen bitch. John Green
Because memories fall apart, too. And then you’re left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. John Green
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can’t due to deadness. John Green
It’s like now you only care about the Alaska you made up. John Green
But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about. John Green
I know so many last words, but I will never know hers. John Green
Because memories fall apart, too. And you’re left with nothing. John Green
Teenagers think they’re invincible. John Green
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. John Green
Suffering is universal. It’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. John Green
Scared isn’t a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used. John Green
Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. John Green
So we gave up. I’d finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We’d failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved. I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me. And the accident, the suicide, would never be anything else, and I was left to ask, Did I help you to a fate you didn’t want, Alaska, or did I jsut assist in your willful self destruction? Because they are different crimes, and I didn’t know wheter to feel angry at myself for letting go. But we knew what could be found out, and in finding out, she had made us closer the Colonel adn Takumi and me, anyway. And that was it. She didn’t leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps. John Green
I didn’t know what to say to her I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side. John Green
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
I needed to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Miles
I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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 hurricane. John Green
She made me different. For she had embodied the Great Perhaps. John Green
