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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Total quotes: 41
“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Tagged: humanness, Human All Too Human, Human Beauty, human, Attraction, Being human
“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, A quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Tagged: live life to the fullest, little things, Looking Back, Life In Retrospect
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Tagged: Past, Looking Back, Moving Forward, Life, Experiences, Regrets, Inspirational
“I hope that we’ll meet again in a world of peace and freedom in the taxi cab if the accident will.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
Tagged: Destiny, Fate
“Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?”
— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country
Tagged: Literature, Human Existence
“He felt only what he had always felt in her presence—love and aching awe and gratitude for her.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Adam
Tagged: Feelings, emotions, Love, Awe, Gratitude, In love, Her
“Of course it’s exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
Tagged: Reasons, Tiring, exhausting, Finding Meaning, Life
“It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
Tagged: Chaos, Adapting, difficult, Challenge
“Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don’t make memories like that anymore.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos: A Novel(Delta Fiction)
Tagged: Love, Feelings, admiration, Weakness, Memories
“My life is nothing but room for you,’ I said. ‘It could never be filled by anyone but you.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Tagged: Life, Love, Courting, Couples, Relationship
“It was all so sad. But it was all so beautiful, too.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan: A Novel
Tagged: Sad, Beautiful, Irony, Sadness
“So it goes.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: One Sentence C, So It Goes, Three Words, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel(Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Life, Nihilism
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
Tagged: You Are Not Alone, Feelings
“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."

"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle: A Novel
Tagged: Banned Books
“They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: War
“The boots fit perfectly. Billy Pilgrim was Cinderella, and Cinderella was Billy Pilgrim.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Time, Change, frozen
“And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Tagged: Sex, Love, hookups
“Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Tagged: America, Work, Jobs
“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“How's the patient?
Dead to the world
But not actually dead?
No 
How nice–to feel nothing and still get credit for being alive. ”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Life
“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: present, Future, Past, Time
“That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Tagged: Memories, Happiness, Earth, humanity
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel(Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Alcohol, Drinking Too Much
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: America, Economic Inequality
“There in the hospital, Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: He was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he was interesting to hear and see.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
“They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Germany
“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel(Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Nothing
“It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Love, dignity
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
Tagged: Love, purpose, human
“A dog...when he can't get out a gate will scratch and dig and make meaningless gestures, perhaps growling or whatever, to deal with frustration or surprise or fear.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country
Tagged: Life
“When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Hungry
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: America, Consumerism, Buying Shit
“So it goes.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Moving On
“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Massacre, Violence
“Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Bad Times, Awful, Overcoming Obstacles
“So it goes.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Tagged: Three Words
“This is the only story of mine whose moral I know.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Tagged: first lines of books
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