Death Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

No art is possible without a dance with death.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Low comedy, empty heroics and pointless death”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Until you die .. it's all life.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Here's all she had to say about death: "Oh my, oh my.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Give me knowledge or give me death.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What in hell is a girl with hips like yours doing selling death?”

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Life, by definition, is never still. Where is it going? From birth to death, with no stops on the way.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I've said. Farewell,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The truth is death, he wrote. I’ve fought nicely against it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was as natural as breathing to all human beings, and to all warm-blooded creatures, for that matter, to wish quick deaths…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He was revived eight times, and hanged nine. Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Yes, and our sister's sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I say the same thing about the death of James Wait: "Oh, well - he wasn't going to write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“All that anybody has in the way of a reputation anymore is an odor which, from birth to death, cannot be modified.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It’s hard to believe how sick of war we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I froze. It was not guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt. It was not a ghastly…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“This morning, thanks to a controlled near-death experience, I was lucky enough to meet, at the far end of the blue tunnel,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It's hard to believe how sick of war we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A black intern at the County Hospital now watched Mary Young die of pneumonia. The intern did not know her. He had…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle, who was alive adn who was dead.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death”

— Kurt Vonnegut