Slaughterhouse Five Quotes

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. She was turned to a pillar of salt.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:love humanity

“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:love self others

“And on and on it went— that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man so full of loving echoes.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:love stupidity

“It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:love

“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

topic:life

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:death art

“Everybody was legally alive now. Before they got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably dead.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:death

“He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:death time past existence

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:time present

“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

topic:time change

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