Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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.
Ends
Better
Even
Going
Would
Life
Like
Sometime
Alright

More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Image
The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -' Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
We are what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
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
Image
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
Kurt Vonnegut