black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Kurt Vonnegut

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
KURT VONNEGUT

Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUT

Disappoint Existence Laughter
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
KURT VONNEGUT

Brave Happiness Health Kind Live Truth
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUT

Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
KURT VONNEGUT

Feeling Man Myself Writing
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUT

Moments Philosophy
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUT

Gift Herself Life
Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
KURT VONNEGUT

Darkness Inspirational See Yourself
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
KURT VONNEGUT

Creation Lesson Writing Yourself
The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
KURT VONNEGUT

Myself Possible Thankful Worst
We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
KURT VONNEGUT

Death Hope Life Myself
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
KURT VONNEGUT

Death Goodness Time
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
KURT VONNEGUT

People Survive Thinking Training
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
KURT VONNEGUT

Animal Moments Philosophy Yourself
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
KURT VONNEGUT

Hard Himself Ignorance Learning Man People Wisdom
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KURT VONNEGUT

Development Ourselves Way Wings

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes