25 Best ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ Quotes That Will Change The Way You Perceive Life And Love (2023)

The hot summer in 2014 witnessed a new movie that changed their perception towards love. 

 ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ movie was released based on the best-selling novel of all time with the same name. The author of the book John Green tells the story of two cancer patients who fell in love with each other despite their age and illness. 

The film was a blockbuster hit, receiving positive reviews from critics as well as from the audience. But the interesting part of this whole plotline is that it is based on a real-life story. 

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber wrote the script of the movie. The direction was given by Josh Boone. Let’s take a look at some of the best movie facts that many are not aware of- 

‘The Fault In Our Stars’ revolves around its two main leads Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster. Both happen to have cancer and eventually meet at the cancer-supporting group for young people. The duo instantly connect and slowly and gradually fell in love. Actors like Nat Wolff, Sam Trammell, Ansel Elgort, Shailene Woodley and Willem Dafoer appeared in supporting roles. 

Hazel Grace Lancaster is a significant character of the movie. A 16-year-old cancer patient girl who has stage IV thyroid cancer. Cancer has spread to her lungs, hence had to rely on an oxygen tank for oxygen. Due to her illness, she attends young cancer support groups where she eventually meets Augustus Waters. The role of Hazel was portrayed by Shailene Woodley who is famous for her roles in hit movies like ‘The Secret Life Of The American Teenager.’ and ‘Divergent’.  

Talking about Augustus Waters, a 17-year-old boy with cancer who fell in love with Hazel Grace Lancaster. He used to be a basketball star before losing his legs to the type of bone cancer called osteosarcoma.

The famous Nat Wolff also appeared in the movie as Issac, a male cancer patient who has eye cancer making him go blind. All three attended the same cancer support group. In the movie as well as in the novel actor Willem Dafoe played the role of Peter Van Houten but was shown as an eccentric writer and reclusive. 

Here we’ve gathered 25 of the best quotes from ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, based on the 2014 best-selling e-book by the same name. We hope these 25 lines will change your perception towards life and love.

The Fault In Our Stars Quotes

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

– John Green

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

– John Green

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

– John Green

“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.”

– John Green

“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.”

– John Green

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

– John Green

“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.”

– John Green

“There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.”

– John Green

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

– John Green

“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water’s death with was Augustus Waters.”

– John Green

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”

– John Green

“The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.”

– John Green

“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.”

– John Green

“Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.”

– John Green

“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.”

– John Green

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

– John Green

“Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

– John Green

“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.”

– John Green

“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.”

– John Green

“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.”

– John Green

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

– John Green

“I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

– John Green

“Is it still cool to go to the mall?’ she asked. ‘I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what’s cool,’ I answered.”

– John Green

“I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.”

– John Green

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

– John Green

While shooting for the movie, actor Ansel told that he spent a lot of time with Tanner Boatwright. His body double who had to lose his legs during a hunting accident. He wanted to know how he handles his regular things in order to understand the role perfectly.