"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed."
Philosophy
"Every character is trapped in amber."
"People aren't supposed to be squeamish about finished events."
Philosophy
"If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings, I wouldn't have any idea how to operate in a human world."
Knowledge
"Every day, once a day, we tell the Earthlings that they can improve their lives by following the guidelines set down by Jesus Christ."
Philosophy
"You know what the first rule of the Tralfamadorian test is?"
Wisdom
"The most important rule of all is that you are never given a test you cannot pass."
Wisdom
"Time isn't the issue. The issue is the moment."
Time
"Every moment, past, present, and future, always has existed, always will exist."
Philosophy
"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts."
Beauty
"Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly so much as they have to do."
"That is my principal complaint about the Earthlings."
Philosophy
"All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Time
"The race has a brief time for love and adventure before they age and die."
Life
"The moment is structured that way."
"Congratulations. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you Earthlings see all of space."
Time
"It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string."
Time
"The moment is structured that way."
Time
"There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects."
Literature
"The moment is structured that way."
Philosophy
"The universe doesn't care. Time is an illusion."
Philosophy
"The moment is structured that way."
Time
"That is a very Earthling thing to do."
Philosophy
"All moments exist all the time."
Time
"We are going to show you how to die."
Death
"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts"
Happiness
"The past, like the future, really existed. The present was an illusion that made it possible for us to feed ourselves one bite at a time"
Time
"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Philosophy
"That is a very Earthling question to ask."
Philosophy
"It is written."