Quote

I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.

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.
Humanity
Universe
Grandest
Dream
Superstition
Believe
Superstitions
Almighty
Center
Ridiculous
Dreams

More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Image
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I never asked to be born in the first place.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
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
Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: C-Students from Yale.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
Kurt Vonnegut