Kurt Vonnegut World Quotations

How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.