Kurt Vonnegut Awful Quotations

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

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

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.