Catch-22

Book · 6 characters · 607 quotes · 1961

Quotes from Catch-22

Y
"I'm not running away. I'm just going."
Yossarian
Y
"They're not your friends. They just want to use you."
Yossarian Friendship
Y
"I just want to live. Is that too much to ask?"
Yossarian Life
Y
"It's a conspiracy! The whole world is against us!"
Yossarian
Y
"I can see it coming."
Yossarian
M
"Every man has a price."
Milo Minderbinder Money
Y
"They're not interested in the troops; they're interested in the medals."
Yossarian Leadership
C
"It's not the act that matters; it's the intention."
Colonel Cathcart Philosophy
Y
"Something is wrong with me and I'm going to fix it."
Yossarian Change
Y
"You're right. I am crazy. But I'm not cracked."
Yossarian Humor
Y
"I'm not insane, I'm just trying to survive."
Yossarian
Y
"The only real reason for dying in this war is that you have to die anyway."
Yossarian Death
Y
"It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
Yossarian Wisdom
C
"It's miraculous. It's a miracle."
Chaplain Tappman Faith
Y
"They're right. I'm crazy!"
Yossarian Humor
D
"Some people are worth all the bother they cause."
Doc Daneeka Relationships
C
"I don't believe in God but I'm afraid of him."
Chaplain Tappman Faith
Y
"Bologna comes from Bologna. It's baloney!"
Yossarian Truth
Y
"The only way to stop the war is to die."
Yossarian Peace
Y
"Catch-22 says I can do anything I want to do, but I can't do anything I want to do."
Yossarian Freedom
M
"Some people are worth more dead than alive."
Milo Minderbinder Money
C
"The only thing more important than a promotion is a discharge."
Colonel Cathcart Work
Y
"Yossarian had never been to the promised land, but he could not help wondering if it was any more comfortable than most of the places he knew."
Yossarian Hope
Y
"He chose to live rather than die."
Yossarian Courage
Y
"Some people would be better off if they had never been born."
Yossarian
Y
"He wanted to deserialize his presence and dematerialize away."
Yossarian
Y
"The war could never end because the country needed an enemy."
Yossarian Politics
Y
"He couldn't understand why he wasn't dead."
Yossarian
Y
"He had come to terms with the fact that he was afraid."
Yossarian Fear
Y
"He wanted to live forever or not at all."
Yossarian Life