Quote

If character is destiny, the good are damned.

Joseph Heller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Heller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 1
Died: 1999
Died: December 10
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Good
Damned
Destiny
Character

More quotes by Joseph Heller

Image
The country was in peril he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
Joseph Heller
Image
Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
Joseph Heller
Image
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
Joseph Heller
Image
The enemy, retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.
Joseph Heller
Image
It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum
Joseph Heller
Image
Yossarian decided to change the subject. Now you're changing the subject. he pointed out diplomatically. I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.
Joseph Heller
Image
He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret
Joseph Heller
Image
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
Joseph Heller
Image
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
Joseph Heller
Image
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
Image
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
Joseph Heller
Image
I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy
Joseph Heller
Image
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
Joseph Heller
Image
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
Joseph Heller
Image
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
Image
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Joseph Heller
Image
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
Joseph Heller
Image
Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
Joseph Heller
Image
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph Heller
Image
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
Joseph Heller