All Joseph Heller Quotes
- But how can one be warm alone? Alone
- mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow. Acceptable
- Rise above principal and do what's right. Inspirational
- It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. Bit
- What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans… All
- ...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for. Certainly Worth
- You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems… Act
- where are the snowdens of yesteryear? Inspirational
- Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy… Accomplishment
- Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and… All
- ¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us… Complaining
- It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance… Abstinence
- As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter… Air
- Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.' Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.' And anything worth dying for,'… Answered
- I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman. Bang
- Well, he died. You don't get any older than that. Any
- The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so… Always Interesting
- She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled. Each
- I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife… Battleship
- They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian… Answered
- The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist… Christ
- There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more. Achieve
- Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die. Alive
- Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden… All
- So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure… Afraid