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Hazel Quotes

Total quotes: 39
“It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid--the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Weather, Summer, humanity, Warm Weather, Good Day, Summer Days
“I told him that he was fearing something universal and inevitable, and how really, the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaningless of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One, Suffering, Pain
“The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: humanity, Being human, Creation, Majesty Of Life, Being Alive, My Favorites
“And then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Grief, Dealing With Sickness, Dealing With Death, Death, Illness, cancer, Pain
“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.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Reading, Reader, Books, humanity
“I told myself that imagining...would not affect the invisible reality going on inside of me, and that therefore all such thoughts were wasted moments in a life composed of a definitionally finite set of such moments.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Thought, Imaginning, Worrying, Overthinking, Moments
“To be with him was to hurt him—inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me; I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Pain, Love & Relationships, hurt, Causing Pain
“People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. ”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients
“You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie and you know it.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: fragility, Being Fragile, rare, Beautiful, Defining Beautiful, My Favorites
“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. ”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, Infinities
“I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One
“It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Dreams, Dream Come True, humanity, Being human, Human Fault
“The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients, Pain, sickness, Dying, Dealing With Death, Feeling Pain
“I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: fragility, Being Fragile, Death, Life After Death, Dealing With Death
“Depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
“My dad understood my cancer the way I did: in the vague and incomplete way people understand electrical circuits and ocean tides.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: cancer, Understanding Cancer, sickness
“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients, Pain, sickness, Dying, Dealing With Death, Feeling Pain
“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. ”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Stories, Telling Stories, Sad Sexual Feels
“And only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation. I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Grief, Dealing With Sickness, Dealing With Death, Death, Illness, cancer, Love, Love & Relationships
“I felt this weird mix of disappointment and anger welling up inside of me. I don't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Feelings, Pain, confusing, Feeling
“I'm like a grenade, Mom. I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Death, Dying, Impending Death, Illness, cancer
“As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, Kissing, Running Out Of Breath, breathing
“The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Art, Philosophy, sickness, Change
“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, and it should.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, Infinities, Love Stories, Love & Happiness
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Heaven, Death, Understanding Life, Understanding Death, The Universe, Universe, After Death
“I need a hit of sucrose. I'm heading to the vending machine.”
— Hazel, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: The Day That Wasn't
Tagged: Sugar is addicting
“His every syllable flirted.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Flirting, talking, Language, My Favorites, Flirt
“It always hurt not to breathe like a normal person, incessantly reminding your lungs to be lungs, forcing yourself to accept as unsolvable the clawing scraping inside-out ache of underoxygenation. So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was choosing among truths. ”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Truths, Illness, breathing, Lungs, sickness, cancer
“I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him in and breathing him out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I could't distinguish among the pains.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One, Suffering, Pain
“You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Growing Up, Children, Navigating The World, Understanding The World, My Favorites, Childhood
“I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a person yet.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One, Suffering, Pain, Universe, Understanding The Universe, Life
“I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone. ”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, Distance, Young Love, Spaces Between
“I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed. But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us—not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One, Suffering, Pain, The Point, purpose, Finding Purpose, Purpose After Death
“The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle, worth the chest tubes and the PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, Kissing, Running Out Of Breath, kiss, Cancer Patient, cancer
“I love you present tense.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, Infinities, Love Stories
“I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me, and then I just started muttering stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid over and over again until the sound unhinged from its meaning. ”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients, Pain, sickness, Dying, Dealing With Death
“'Augustus Waters,' I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, Anne Frank House, Anne Frank, Falling In Love, broken, Loving The Broken
“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. 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, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Grief, Dealing With Sickness, Dealing With Death, Death, Illness, cancer
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught.

Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
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