Kurt Vonnegut Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Kurt Vonnegut:

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

Kurt Vonnegut

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

Kurt Vonnegut

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Kurt Vonnegut

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Kurt Vonnegut

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.

Kurt Vonnegut

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Kurt Vonnegut

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

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

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

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

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Kurt Vonnegut

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Kurt Vonnegut

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

Kurt Vonnegut

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Kurt Vonnegut

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Kurt Vonnegut

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Kurt Vonnegut

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Kurt Vonnegut

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

Kurt Vonnegut