He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret Joseph Heller More Quotes by Joseph Heller More Quotes From Joseph Heller They can do anything we can't stop them from doing. Joseph Heller drugcan-dowar It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves. Joseph Heller enigmaticnobody-knowsknows 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 through a ward full of nuts. Joseph Heller nutsnightworld The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet. Joseph Heller bodyeasepast Insanity is contagious. Joseph Heller contagiousinsanity 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 Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven? Joseph Heller islandsmenbook Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. Joseph Heller suicidesuccessfunny How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Joseph Heller evilrunningpeople I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. Joseph Heller dreamnightlong There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more. Joseph Heller envyachievedisappointment It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. Joseph Heller differenceswinningwar He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Joseph Heller hygienesarcasticliterature Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. Joseph Heller humoroussuccesspeople For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive. Joseph Heller expensiveenoughwar The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog? Joseph Heller fightingmenyears 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 asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make? Joseph Heller differencesdoetrying Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was. Joseph Heller threemenpeople The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. Joseph Heller texanbe-goodthree Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence. Joseph Heller innocencebornstates I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy. Joseph Heller mercyimaginationprocess
