1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).