1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

E' chiaro che capisco che la ripugnanza ispirata persino adesso, e forse per sempre, dalla parola "comunismo" è una degna risposta alla crudeltà e ottusità dei dittatori dell'URSS, che si erano definiti comunisti con lo stesso disinvolto arbitrio con cui Hitler si definiva cristiano. Per noi figli della Grande Depressione, tuttavia, continua a sembrare sciocco far pesare i crimini di quei tiranni su un termine che all'inizio sembrava l'unica alternativa ragionevole all'alea di Wall Street.

And what we will all be seeking when we decamp, and for the rest of our lives, will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity. We thought we could do without tribes and clans. Well, we can't.

Does it trouble me to write so insubstantially, with air on air? Well--my words will be as enduring as anything my father wrote, or Shakespeare wrote, or Beethoven wrote, or Darwin wrote. It turns out that they all wrote with air on air.

Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.'Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?’‘Yes.’ Billy in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.‘Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.