Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

Does killing time damage eternity?

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.

Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

Our bodies are the time machine.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

What you call man is time.

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

But the past is long, and the future is short.

Eternity - waste of time.

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.