Death Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“It is sometimes argued that disbelief in a fearful and tempting heavenly despotism makes life into something arid and tedious and cynical: a mere…

— Christopher Hitchens

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

— Alan Watts

“The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with the infantile…

— Sigmund Freud

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

— Jim Stovall

I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate…

— Lord Chesterfield

“It happens that over a long period you are promised a great success, in which from the very start you do not believe, so…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But…

— Carl Sagan

Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation…

— William S. Burroughs

“If you will not imagine yourself as other than what you are, then you remain as you are, “for if ye believe not that…

— Neville

“Worst of all was Freud. While not technically a brooding philosopher, Freud did much to shape our views on happiness. He once said: “The…

— Eric Weiner

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the…

— Beatrice M. Hinkle