Quote #56
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.
More from Joseph Heller
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- All is vanity, you know, ALL in the long run is but vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Everybody is as unstable as water.
- 'If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?'
- How ironic the difference between me and my young son Absalom, between his soliciting the soundest means of overtaking me and having my lif…
- No one lusting for blood is ever innocent. Or satisfied. I have not been innocent. Or satisfied. Just as the man who wants silver will not …
- Now THERE'S a hollow state to be in, isn't it- to believe in God and get no sign that He's there.
- Vanity. What's wrong with vanity? It doesn't satisfy.