1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

Live by the foma(Harmless untruths) that make you braveand kind and healthy and happy.

It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate.

Of course, if you can pretend to be strong all your life, then you can be very comforting to those around you.

Przecież jednym z najważniejszych efektów wojny jest właśnie to, że pozbawia ludzi osobowości.

It wasn't that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high-school education. She upset billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

If I’d had a bazooka, I could have blown a hole in the wall between us. If I hadn’t killed one or both of us, I could have asked you, ‘What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like that?’

When the last living thingHas died on account of us,How poetical it would beIf Earth could say,In a voice floating upPerhapsFrom the floorOf the Grand Canyon,"It is done."People did not like it here.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.