# Quote — Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

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

- Author: [Christopher Hitchens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens.md)
- Book: [Mortality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/mortality.md)
- Page: 91
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens#Mortality_(2012)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/mortality/if-i-convert

## More from this book

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/mortality/i-have-been.md)

> 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.)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/mortality/as-a-terrified.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/mortality/to-the-dumb.md)