Death Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

I'm dying, but so are you

— Christopher Hitchens

“Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

— Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

— Christopher Hitchens

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but... Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)”

— Christopher Hitchens

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.”

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I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as…

— Christopher Hitchens

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.”

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“Death has this much to be said for it: You don’t have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen…

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“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as…

— Christopher Hitchens

“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be…

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We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,…

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One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm…

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“as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. In…

— Christopher Hitchens

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“ Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In The Future of an Illusion, Freud made the obvious point that religion suffered from one incurable deficiency: it was too clearly…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I know not how I contrived to get the subject of immortality introduced. He said he never had entertained any belief in…

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“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are…

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“Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses…

— Christopher Hitchens

“We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like…

— Christopher Hitchens

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an…

— Christopher Hitchens

People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception…

— Christopher Hitchens

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know…

— Christopher Hitchens