1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Oh, a very sorry people, yes,Did I find here.Oh, they had no music,And they had no beer.And, oh, everywhereWhere they tried to perchBelonged to Castle Sugar, Incorporated,Or the Catholic church.

Busy, busy, busy.

...sentimentul ca viata era un cosmar fara sens si ca nimeni nu observa si nici nu se sinchisea de ceea ce se petrecea in jur imi era foarte familiar... Tot asa m-am simtit si eu dupa ce am impuscat o batrana in Vietnam... Acest episod m-a facut sa regret ca sunt in viata, m-a facut sa invidiez pietrele. As fi vrut mai degraba sa fiu doar o piatra integrata Ordinii Naturale.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that.""My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

در ادامه مقاله‌ی وست‌لیک آمده بود که کارگران برده‌سانی که ناس را به دار آویخته بودند درست نمی‌دانستند که او کی هست؛ فقط می‌دانستند شخصیت مهمی است، همین. علت دار زدن ناس همان نفس ِ دار زدن بود و بس؛ از اعدام یک شخصیت مهم احساس رضایت خاطر می‌کردند .

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.