Time Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

“Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Quoth the doorbell with its silence, no comment at this time.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Here we are, traped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Me and Mike, ve vork in mine. Holy shit, ve have good time. Vunce a veek ve get our pay. Holy shit,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

— 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

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous…

— Kurt Vonnegut

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good…

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“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past...all moments past, present and…

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“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.”…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Why so many of us knocked us major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment,…

— 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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And then it developed that Campbell was not going to go unanswered after all. Poor old Derby, the doomed high school teacher,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Kilgore Trout was shadowing him, keen to know what Billy had suspected or seen. Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“How- how did I get here?" "It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Billy licked his lips, thought a while, inquired at last: "Why me?" "That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“isn’t it time for your soul, which has been ashamed of your meat for so long, to thank your meat for finally…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“For many years I was the principal companion of my mother. She was a beautiful, talented, morbid person. I think she was…

— 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

“I think that could go back to the time when people had to live in small groups of relatives—maybe fifty or a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The museums in children’s minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror—to protect the children from eternal grief. For…

— 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 have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be linked unto a system of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back…

— 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