Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

topic:meaning talking

“If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:appearance pride

“you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:living

“So tell me the secret so I can take it back to Earth and save us all: How can a planet live at peace?”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:peace

“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:present

“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:feeling

“I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense,So we all could be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit nice,And I made this sad worldA par-a-dise.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

topic:sadness lie

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

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

topic:sadness

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

― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

topic:choice

“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

topic:fate

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