Slaughterhouse-Five

"That is what I am. I am a time traveler"

"I'm not mad. I just sat and cried"

"The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains"

"How nice to touch the sun again"

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die"

"I have this little pain in my chest"

"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts"

"So it goes, Billy said to his wife in the dream, I've seen my own death."

"Robert Redford! That's funny! That's very funny!"

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy."

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."

"Everything is fine."

"I hate to say how time-compressed my visions of the future are, how horrible and wonderful they are, how sad they are."

"Congratulations. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."

"Make me young, make me young, make me young!"

"That is a very Earthling thing to do."

"You know what I say to people when I hear they're getting married? I say, 'Why?'"

"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.'"

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past."

"I have this disease late in life. It's a very important disease. Practically nobody knows about it. It's quite serious. I have this disease called Trout Mask Replica."

"Now I am going to tell you about the sickness I have."

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."

"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"We are all here on Earth to help each other through this thing."

"The moment is always now."

"And the war is over. The war is over. The war is over."

"Everything there is, is just the way it has always been and always will be."

"We will all be dead soon. That is what I have learned."

"Nobody is here because this is not a real place."

"The government should be run by volunteers. There should be no politicians."