More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?
Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
