Quote

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

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
Comes
Ever
Certitude
Good
Teaches
Men
Motivated
Lasting
Teach
Moral
History

More quotes by Joseph Heller

Image
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 are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.
Joseph Heller
Image
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
Joseph Heller
Image
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.
Joseph Heller
Image
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
Joseph Heller
Image
What do you do when it rains? The captain answered frankly. I get wet.
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
I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.
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
All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.
Joseph Heller
Image
A man's head is his castle.
Joseph Heller
Image
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
Joseph Heller
Image
Insanity is contagious.
Joseph Heller
Image
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
Joseph Heller
Image
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph Heller
Image
Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)
Joseph Heller
Image
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
Joseph Heller
Image
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Joseph Heller
Image
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
Joseph Heller
Image
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
Joseph Heller
Image
He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret
Joseph Heller