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Kurt Vonnegut on Birthday

1922–2007 United States

← All quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

9 quotes

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die.

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

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

Jailbird (1979)

Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

Bluebeard (1987)

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."

His poor soul was flooded with pleasure as he realized that one friend was all that a man needed in order to be well-supplied with friendship.

The Sirens of Titan (1959)

What is time? It is a serpent which eats its tail [...].

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

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

Kilgore's Creed: "You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."

Timequake (1997)

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.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kurt Vonnegut (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.