Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead. Breakfast of Champions

2. Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. The Sirens of Titan

3. Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

4. About the dumb Earthlings versus the smart Earthlings: I have known a fair number of scientists over the years, and I noticed they were often as bored by each other’s work as dumb people would be. Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

5. Are you a Bokononist?' I asked him.'I agree with one Bokononist idea. I agree that all religions, including Bokononism, are nothing but lies.''Will this bother you as a scientist, 'I inquired, 'to go through a ritual like this?''I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing. Cat's Cradle

6. Frank Hoenikker was with them, explaining who Bokonon was and what he was against. 'He's against science.''How can anybody in his right mind be against science?' asked Crosby. Cat's Cradle

7. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. Slaughterhouse-Five

8. I only wish the NRA and its jellyfish, well-paid supporters in legislatures both State and Federal would be careful to recite the whole of it, and then tell us how a heavily armed man, woman, or child, recruited by no official, led by no official, given no goals by any official, motivated or restrained only by his or her personality and perceptions of what is going on, can be considered a member of a well-regulated militia. Fates Worse Than Death

9. Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. Timequake

10. The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies heonly appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people tocry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always willexist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we canlook at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent allthe moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just anillusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on astring, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a badcondition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of othermoments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say whatthe Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes. Slaughterhouse-Five