“Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing in life is - it's revenge.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“What is the secret of life?’ I asked. ‘I forget,’ said Sandra. ‘Protein,’ the bartender declared. ‘They found something out about protein.‘… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Just when you think there isn't any point to life - "he said, "then, all of a sudden, you realize that you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ... — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He said science was going to discover the basic secret of life some day,' the bartender put in. He scratched his head… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There was nothing quite like sworn testimony to make life look trivial and mean ever after. Also:” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Why should I bother with made-up games when there are so many real ones going on?” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My life is nothing but room for you,’ I said. ‘It could never be filled by anyone but you.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There's more to life than what you read in books. You'll find that out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Enjoy the little things in life... for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The wreckers against the builders!” said Elmer. “There’s the whole story of life!” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you want to kind of try what I do, take life seriously but none of the people in it.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You mustn't speak certain kinds of truth, not if you want to go on living.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
