1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Can I tell you the truth? I mean this isn’t the TV news is it? Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like too many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

Yes, and Eliza and I composed a precocious critique of the Constitution of the United Staes of America, too. We argued that it was a good scheme for misery as any, since its success in keeping the common people reasonably happy and proud depended on the strength of the people themselves-- and yet it described no practical machinery which would tend to make the people, as opposed to their elected representatives, strong.

Billy Pilgrim: "You guys go on without me. I'll be alright."Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut

Quasi non ci sono personaggi, in questa storia, e quasi non ci sono confronti drammatici, perché la maggior parte degli individui che vi figurano sono mal ridotti, sono solo trastulli indifferenti in mano a forze immense. Uno dei principali effetti della guerra è, in fondo, che la gente è scoraggiata dal farsi personaggio.

Sem, šī grāmata ir tik īsa, tik saraustīta un tik nesakarīga tāpēc, ka par slaktiņiem neko īsti sakarīgu uzrakstīt nevar. Kad tie beigušies, visiem pieklājas būt mirušiem, neko vairs nesacīt, neko vairs nevēlēties.

Prettanku nodaļas ierindnieks būdams, viņš bija palīdzējis izšaut vienu svēta naida lādiņu no 57 mm prettanku granātmetēja. Šāviens gāja vaļā ar pamatīgu žvīkstoņu gluži kā visvarenā debesu dieva bikšu rāvslēdzis.

Deja ar nāvi ir mākslas pamatu pamats. Patiesība ir nāve. Es braši cīnījos ar viņu, cik vien spēju... es dejoju ar viņu, apviju viņu ar ziediem, griezu viņu valsī... rotāju viņu ar lentēm, kutināju viņu...

Oh," said Castle. "Him." He shrugged. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.