Donald Heiney Quotes

United States, Academic
September 7, 1921 – July, 24, 1993.

Donald Heiney (/ˈhaɪni/; September 7, 1921 – July 24, 1993) was a sailor and academic as well as a prolific and inventive writer using the pseudonym of MacDonald Harris for fiction.

But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.

Donald Heiney
- Life
- World
- Death
What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.

Donald Heiney
- Lost
- Simple
- Ego

The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from the others and my life wasn't quite as stupid and pointless.

Donald Heiney
- Life
- Different
- Long
Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.

Donald Heiney
- People
- Courage
- Alcohol
The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities.

Donald Heiney
- Men