black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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’.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
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.
KURT VONNEGUT

Alive Last Myself People Powerful
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?
KURT VONNEGUT

Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
KURT VONNEGUT

Herself Home Human People Wife
All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUT

Beautiful Happiness Myself Right Walk Yourself
Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
KURT VONNEGUT

Forever Lost Love Place Search
Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUT

Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
KURT VONNEGUT

Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
KURT VONNEGUT

Beautiful Hurt
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
KURT VONNEGUT

Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUT

Moments Philosophy
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’.
KURT VONNEGUT

Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself
The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
KURT VONNEGUT

Existence God Himself Music Need
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
KURT VONNEGUT

Deep Myself Philosophy
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
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUT

Sick Yourself

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’.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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’.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes