(17 quotes found)
“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“So it goes.”
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers”
“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
“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.”
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.”
