“Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Death has this much to be said for it: You don’t have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. In… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In The Future of an Illusion, Freud made the obvious point that religion suffered from one incurable deficiency: it was too clearly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I know not how I contrived to get the subject of immortality introduced. He said he never had entertained any belief in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
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