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Famous Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
“We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.”
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.”
“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”
“The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.”
“We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.”
“To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.”
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.”
“All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.”
“It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.”
“Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.”
“A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.”
“All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.”
“Life is no way to treat an animal.”
“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
“See the cat? See the cradle?”