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 VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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