Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to be a remedy.”— Kurt Vonnegut
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'”— Kurt Vonnegut
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”— Kurt Vonnegut
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”— Kurt Vonnegut
“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
“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.'”— Kurt Vonnegut
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”— Kurt Vonnegut
“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.”— Kurt Vonnegut