Life Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

All of life is a wager

— Christopher Hitchens

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

— Christopher Hitchens

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,

— Christopher Hitchens

“Montaigne: “Religion’s surest foundation is the contempt for life.”

— Christopher Hitchens

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

— Christopher Hitchens

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

— Christopher Hitchens

“[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.”

— Christopher Hitchens

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

— Christopher Hitchens

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not…

— Christopher Hitchens

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any…

— Christopher Hitchens

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living…

— Christopher Hitchens

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But…

— Christopher Hitchens

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture,…

— Christopher Hitchens

The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her…

— Christopher Hitchens

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I want to live my life taking the risk - all the time - that I don't know anything like-enough yet, that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Arguments for atheism can be divided into two main categories: those that dispute the existence of god and those that demonstrate the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth…

— Christopher Hitchens

“You allege some considerations in favor of a Deity from the universality of a belief in his existence. The superstitions of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“why has the blowjob had a dual existence for so long, sometimes subterranean and sometimes flaunted, before bursting into plain view as…

— Christopher Hitchens

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

— Christopher Hitchens

If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's…

— Christopher Hitchens

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

— Christopher Hitchens

“To begin with a summary of Paine’s astonishing life and career is to commence with a sense of wonder that he was…

— Christopher Hitchens

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens