# Mortality

- Author: [Christopher Hitchens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/mortality

## Quotes

> I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

> As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be "me." (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)

> To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?

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

> If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

p. 91

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

> ...those who say I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

p. 88