Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry I did that to you. I’m sorry I did all those things to you over all of these years. I’m sorry I took my anger out on you. I’m sorry that I repeated the abuse Chaos had given me onto you. I’m just so sorry!

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, an

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who h

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

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.

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts.

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'

Science is magic that works.

In nonsense is strength.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

So it goes.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country

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