Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

“Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”

“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”

“Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.”

“I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. Oh, well -- he wasnt going to write the Beethovens Ninth Symphony anyway.”

“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.”

“And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. Its good for you.”

“If somebody says I love you to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? I love you, too.”

“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is So it goes.”

“I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.”

“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”

“Youll forget it when youre dead, and so will I. When Im dead, Im going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.”