Quotes by kurt vonnegut

“He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going up a smokestack of a crematorium there: "I had just been assigned to t...”

“When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it.”

“Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.”

“There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.”

“Tis better to have love and lustThan to let our apparatus rust.”

“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousan...”

“How niceto feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

“Fear hadnt come to him yet. Pain hadnt come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something perfect at lastthe taste of a drink from a cold, pure spring.”

“There are plenty of good reason for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large ...”

“Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.”

“He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his.”

“I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking so...”

“Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.”

“Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to Athena. 'Drugs were food,' he said. 'I was in the food business. Just because people o...”

“I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.”

“Maturity, Bokonontells us, is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.”

“Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since ther...”

“He was looking for programs on which he might be allowed to appear. But it was too early in the evening for programs that allowed people with peculiar opinions to speak out. It was only a little af...”

“If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.”

“Vera had not sensed my approach. She was peering into the instrument and turning knobs with child-like seriousness and ineptitude. It was obvious that she had never used a microscope before. I stol...”