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

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”

“Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.”

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.”

“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Iliad and The Odyssey," "Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" — are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?”

“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”

“The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.”

““For Jenn”

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.”

“Genuine love should first be directed at oneself - if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?”