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.

— Looking for Alaska (via ahouseoforchids)

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    This kind of sums up what I could never put into words about religion and an afterlife. “People believed in an afterlife...
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