Quotes About Paradox

How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.

Yossarian wrinkled his forehead with quizzical amusement. "You won't marry me because I'm crazy, and you say I'm crazy because I want to marry you? Is that right?

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22....

Oh, don't you worry about that," Yossarian comforted him with a toneless snicker as the engines of the jeeps and ambulance fractured the drowsy silence and the vehicles in the rear began driving away backward.

you have to be insane before they will let you fly no more missions, but the fact that you want to fly no more missions is proof that you are not insane.

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity by this clause of Catch-22 and let a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' agreed Doc Daneeka.

Tudja, ez lehet a megoldás: dicsekedjünk azzal, amit szégyenlenünk kellene. Ez olyan trükk, ami, úgy látszik, mindig beválik.

Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all. And if that wasn't funny, there were lots of things that weren't even funnier.

Yossarian!!!(?)!

His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce.

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.

I used to get a big kick out of saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.

Chocolate-covered cotton.

Sure there's a catch,' Doc Daneeka replied. 'Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.' There

Joseph Heller

There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally fewer people inside the hospital who were seriously sick. There was a much lower death rate inside the hospital than outside the hospital, and a much healthier death rate.

Joseph Heller

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

And if that wasn't funny, there were lots of things that weren't even funnier.

For Catch-22 is the unwritten law which empowers the authorities to revoke your rights whenever it suits their cruel whims;

Who could conceive back then the enormity of Saul's brooding hatred for me or comprehend the threatening paradox that the more I accomplished to gratify him, the greater would grow the jealousy and wrath he felt toward me? I know I was hurt when I saw him so angry with me that first time, and I was flustered in a queer and guilt-ridden way each time I found him so thereafter.

You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow down?

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. Catch 22