Kurt Vonnegut Life Quotations

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

A man without a home can't be lost.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often 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."

Love is where you find it.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

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."

... life, by definition, is never still.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing.

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life