The quotations of

Kurt Vonnegut

American author

1922–2007

45 quotes, most often on Comedy, Life & Death and Education. Part of the Writers collection.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 88
- Laughter
- Maturity
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Mother Night (1962)
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.
Cold Turkey (2004)
- Comedy
- Health
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
- Life & Death
Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
Mother Night, introduction to the 1966 edition
- Sex
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
A Man Without a Country (2005)
- Comedy
- Life & Death
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Bluebeard (1987), p. 82
- Time
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
Slapstick (1976), Prologue
- Love
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.”
Slapstick (1976), Prologue
- Love
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “Science Fiction” … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
“Science Fiction”; originally published in The New York Times Book Review, 5 September 1965
- Clever Jabs
- Writing
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 165; epigram)
- Good & Evil
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Jailbird (1979), p. 14
- Hope
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in heaven now.” That’s my favorite joke.
A Man Without a Country (2005)
- Comedy
- Life & Death
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)
- America
- Politics
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
- Life & Death

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