I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.
John GreenYou will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
John GreenPeople, 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