Slaughterhouse Five Quotes
Slaughterhouse Five Quote of the day
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next
It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
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.
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.