Yossarian

Character in Catch-22 From: Catch-22

Bombardier and protagonist who questions the absurdity of war

405 quotes

"We're all crazy people, living in a crazy world."
Philosophy
"I've got to live; I can't die yet."
"I want to be understood."
Relationships
"There is no one word for it."
Truth
"I'm not running away. I'm running towards something."
Courage
"I'd rather be alive than dead."
"The war is long over. Stop flying missions."
Peace
"All I know is Snowden."
Death
"I've been duped."
"Insanity is contagious."
Wisdom
"That's some catch, that Catch-22."
Philosophy
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed."
War
"The only way to think about war is to think about it."
War
"There's no place like home."
"I'm not going to fly any more missions."
Courage
"War is hell."
War
"Insanity is the only sane response to an insane world."
Philosophy
"Life is absurd. The only appropriate response is to laugh at it."
Humor
"The fact that people die is what makes life so precious."
"Insanity is contagious."
Wisdom
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a problem for you."
Freedom
"There is no madness to it at all. None of it has any madness to it at all."
Truth
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on."
War
"I'm living in a state of shock. That's what one person does to another."
Relationships
"I've lived in a state of shock ever since."
Fear
"Nothing makes sense anymore."
Truth
"I'm the craziest bastard in the whole world."
Courage
"It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
War
"He never even wrote back."
"I want to keep living."
Life