Kurt Vonnegut Alive Quotations

We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.