Life Quotes Quote by Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

““America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.”

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

““The monsters were never”

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”

“I am a horror maniac who prefers to stay at home.”

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”