Quote by John Green Download Open image ““I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved… — John Green Copy Share Image
“They believed that this world was fallen but that restitution would be provided elsewhere, in an afterlife. I believed that this world was fallen… — James Wood Copy Share Image
“I still think that, sometimes, think that maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Without proof of an afterlife, they were intimately aware of their mortality and the limitations of it.” — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
“I’m pretty sure he did not believe in God or an afterlife, but he had to believe that there is an immortality in living… — Daniel Radosh Copy Share Image
“There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse.” — Susan Dennard Copy Share Image
“When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image