Catch 22 Yossarian Quotes

#1. To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Joseph Heller

#2. Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch ...

Joseph Heller

#4. I run my hand over my eyes again and move it to my open mouth then my chin, laughing into my palm. "She has me so completely, and the only thing I can compare it to is the way you said Alyssa hit your heart. Like there's nothing too crazy, too far, too much...

Ginger Scott

#5. You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.

Chris Stapleton

#6. We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

Chinua Achebe

#7. I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

Fanny Brice

#8. I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions' stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. They were the most depressing group of people Yossarian had ever been with. They were always in high spirits.

Joseph Heller

#10. This stuff is better than cotton candy, really it is. It's made out of real cotton. Yossarian, you've got to help me make the men eat it. Egyptian cotton is the finest cotton in the world.

Joseph Heller

#11. Believe you can achieve your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

Thomas Hardy

#13. That goddam stunted, red-faced, big-cheeked, apple-cheeked, curlyheaded, midget assed, , google-eyed, undersized, grinning, buck-toothed rat!!" Yossarian sputtered.
~ Catch-22

Joseph Heller

#14. Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

Joseph Heller

#15. What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#16. The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

Alex Pareene

#17. I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

Joseph Heller

#18. The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

Neil Cross

#19. If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossibles," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time.

Timothy Ferriss