36 Quotes About Slaughterhouse-five

The third bullet was for the filthy flamingo, who stopped dead center in the road when the lethal bee buzzed past his ear. Billy stood there politely, giving the marksman another chance. It was his addled understanding of the rules of warfare that the marksman should be given a second chance.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, there, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.

- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next