36 Quotes About Slaughterhouse-five

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.