264 quotes
Maybe God has let everybody who ever lived be reborn — so he or she can see how it ends.
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Mother Night (1962)
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Mother Night (1962)
Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.
Bluebeard (1987)
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Player Piano (1952)
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, and a little more common decency."
Slapstick (1976)
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Cat's Cradle (1963)
"If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?"
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Jailbird (1979)
Make love when you can. It's good for you.
Mother Night (1962)
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
Cat's Cradle (1963)
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Bluebeard (1987)
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
I simply never unlearned junior civics.
James Lundquist in Kurt Vonnegut (1971)
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Bluebeard (1987)
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.