Humans Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing it is to be human.

— Kurt Vonnegut

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

— Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing to be human.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

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It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

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It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a…

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Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This…

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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No…

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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought,…

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It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to…

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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that…

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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much…

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The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else…

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If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell…

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Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The…

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Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And…

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She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims,…

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After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in…

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If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do…

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You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a…

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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of…

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All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of…

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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family…

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God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad…

— Kurt Vonnegut