1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to as a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.