Kurt Vonnegut – 8 Quotes

8 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

– Kurt Vonnegut

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

– Kurt Vonnegut

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

– Kurt Vonnegut

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

– Kurt Vonnegut

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

– Kurt Vonnegut

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

– Kurt Vonnegut

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

– Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

– Kurt Vonnegut