1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. 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'.

If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.

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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . ." "And?" "No damn cat, and no damn cradle.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.