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Quotes from God Knows — Joseph Heller

1923–1999 United States

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27 quotes

God had no need for Ecclesiastes to acquaint Him with vanity.

God Knows (1984)

"Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?"
"There is no heaven. There is no hell."
"There is no heaven? There is no hell?"
"That's all in your mind."

God Knows (1984)

Love is potent stuff, isn't it?

God Knows (1984)

Everybody is as unstable as water.

God Knows (1984)

No one who ever wants praise will be satisfied with praise, the person who wants love cannot be satisfied with love. No want is ever fulfilled. And therefore I still don't know whether it is better to fear God and keep His commandments or to curse God and die.

God Knows (1984)

I'm not even sure we really had that much need for God as much as we did seem to have a need to believe in Him.

God Knows (1984)

He who steals my purse steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed. (Shakespeare's Othello said it first.)

God Knows (1984)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Heller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.