💬 Quotes

"He has always come unstuck in time."

"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked."

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'"

"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

"I didn't want my name in lights. I wanted my name in the pages of a book, a book that I had written."

"I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

"Il ne faut pas oublier qu'il suffit d'un sourire pour changer le cours d'une journée."

"C’est le choix qui montre ce que nous sommes vraiment, bien plus que nos aptitudes."

"Il faut beaucoup de courage pour affronter ses ennemis, mais il en faut tout autant pour affronter ses amis."

"La vérité. C'est une chose terrible et magnifique, et elle doit donc être traitée avec une grande précaution."

"Ne plains pas les morts, Harry. Plains les vivants et surtout ceux qui vivent sans amour."

"On peut trouver le bonheur même dans les moments les plus sombres, si l'on se souvient d'allumer la lumière."

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind."

"He was going to live forever or die in the attempt."

"It was almost too good to be true, and that was the trouble with it. It was too good to be true, and therefore it could not be true."

"They're trying to kill me, he told him. No one is trying to kill you, Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me, Yossarian asked."

"Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for."

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."