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Love Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

87 Love quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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A window opened wide lets love spill into the world, a scene that captures both yearning and the need for decency. Some lines mock the endless hunt for perfect love, while others ask for less romance and more kindness. The collection mixes humor, satire, and thoughtful reflections on love’s role.

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Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

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What memories for mud to have.

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... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

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I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard,

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There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

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“I found the words to kill the love, didn't I -" she said, "the love that couldn't be killed?”

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Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

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It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

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“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time”

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Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

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“There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. I am proof of that.”

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Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

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“Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it’ll be her wings not…

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“Oh my God, you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you'll freeze to death, you'll starve to death''. And…

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“There was one where he bet I couldn't tell him anything that was absolutely true. So I told him, 'God is love'.”

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With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen.…

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“As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my…

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love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws…

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I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will…

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“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You…

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“Unk, standing at a porthole, wept quietly. He was weeping for love, for family, for friendship, for truth, for civilization. The things…

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“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be…

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“People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that…

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“In honor of the marriage that worked, I include in this collection a sickeningly slick love story from The Ladies’ Home Journal,…

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“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to…

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It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It…

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“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at once.There is no beginning, no middle,…

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“Her pleasure went on and on, and so did Ben's. Ben could almost smell the gardenia, could almost see her pinning it…

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“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To…

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“It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It…

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“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be…

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“Eliza—” I said, “so many of the books I’ve read to you said love was the most important thing of all. Maybe…

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“Kurt Vonnegut to Shakespeare: I asked him if he had love affairs with men as well as women, knowing how eager my…

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We are what we pretend to be.

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Love is where you find it.

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The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

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I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

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