Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Indianapolis
Indiana
Kurt Vonnegut
Jr.
Death
Pointless
Three
Absurd
Lows
Infinite
Empty
Comedy
Bounties
Philosophy
Heroics
Space
Bounty
More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.
Kurt Vonnegut
All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
Kurt Vonnegut
Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
Kurt Vonnegut
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
Kurt Vonnegut
She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.
Kurt Vonnegut
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
Kurt Vonnegut
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
Kurt Vonnegut
Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
Kurt Vonnegut
I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.
Kurt Vonnegut
Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
Kurt Vonnegut
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut
The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.
Kurt Vonnegut
The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.
Kurt Vonnegut
My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
Kurt Vonnegut
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
Kurt Vonnegut
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Kurt Vonnegut
Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet
Kurt Vonnegut
We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
Kurt Vonnegut
Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.
Kurt Vonnegut
