Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Motivational, Song, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.480, Da Capo Press

• It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again.
  To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

• "Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Pain, Mean, Mind

• It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

  Christopher Hitchens

  Pain, Memories, Impossible

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

• The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Art, Pain

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.208, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pain, Self

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd

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