Joseph Heller Quotes

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

To the stars through thorns.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Lifes strange ,times change, but karma always finds the way. Stay strong, hold on. Don’t let all your dreams fade away. Yeah life can beat you down, what goes it comes around It’s not how you hit the ground, it’s how fast you get back up. And go, keep going ,till it feels like I’m giving my life away Gets hard,and harder, happiness is worth the wait.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

The most wretched have yet hope.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

I've always believed in survival.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.