Joseph Heller Quotes

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

I play guys who are willing to go really far. If the dung really hits the fan, I don't know if I could walk the talk. But anyone who isn't willing to die for his convictions isn't worth living. My characters, no matter how demented they are, they have their convictions.

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.