1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

A man without a home can't be lost.

Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.