Joseph Heller Quotes

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.