Life Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Life is no way to treat an animal.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A man without a home can't be lost.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

— Kurt Vonnegut

... life, by definition, is never still.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Until you die .. it's all life.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“God never wrote a good play in his life.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Life has left no marks on him, because he hasn't paid much attention to it.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Look at him! That's life, according to the medical profession. Isn't life wonderful?”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing in life is - it's revenge.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not,” said Trout. “It’s dangerous, I know, and it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and with a definite…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What is the secret of life?’ I asked. ‘I forget,’ said Sandra. ‘Protein,’ the bartender declared. ‘They found something out about protein.‘…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,” I said, “that makes it damn nearly impossible for me to say anything. I’ve…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning,…

— 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

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

— 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

“Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He said science was going to discover the basic secret of life some day,' the bartender put in. He scratched his head…

— Kurt Vonnegut