What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
