Alive Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

— Kurt Vonnegut

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

— Kurt Vonnegut

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

— Kurt Vonnegut

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always…

— Kurt Vonnegut

How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel…

— Kurt Vonnegut