36 Quotes About Slaughterhouse-five

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

All time is time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.

The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a colour photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable.What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.

If everybody would leave him alone for just a little while, he thought, he wouldn't cause anybody any more trouble. He would turn to steam and float up among the treetops.

El arte no es posible si no baila como pareja de la muerte, decía.