16 beautiful quotes by Kurt Vonnegut. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Kurt Vonnegut
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man g...
“To be is to do - SocratesTo do is to be - SartreDo Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
“I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense,So we could all be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that ...
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imag...
“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think a...
“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less clea...
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
“The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past...
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites represent...
“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bus...
“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”
