Slaughterhouse-Five

Book · 5 characters · 503 quotes · 1968

Quotes from Slaughterhouse-Five

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"The wars outside my window don't mean anything to the ones inside."
Billy Pilgrim War
T
"Time is an illusion that helps things not happen all at once."
Tralfamadorian Time
E
"Any man who would break his oath would be a liar and a cheat."
Eliot Rosewater Truth
B
"Do you know what happened when the Germans captured me?"
Billy Pilgrim War
B
"People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to look back anymore."
Billy Pilgrim Change
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim Happiness
B
"There is nothing to fear."
Billy Pilgrim Fear
B
"All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed."
Billy Pilgrim Time
B
"The Tralfamadorians don't see time the way we do."
Billy Pilgrim Philosophy
B
"I have this disease late at night sometimes."
Billy Pilgrim Health
B
"You know what I say to people when I hear they are getting married? I say congrats on the success in the lottery."
Billy Pilgrim Relationships
B
"Everything on Tralfamadore is beautiful."
Billy Pilgrim Beauty
B
"The war was over in my head."
Billy Pilgrim Peace
B
"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Billy Pilgrim Life
B
"Do you know what the Tralfamadorians think of Earth?"
Billy Pilgrim Philosophy
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies, he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim Death
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim Life
B
"The only reason I'm tall is so that I can see my feet."
Billy Pilgrim Humor
K
"We are here on Earth to fart around."
Kurt Vonnegut Life
B
"This is war."
Billy Pilgrim War
E
"Welcome to the machine."
Eliot Rosewater Technology
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim Life
B
"Money is a leading cause of misery."
Billy Pilgrim Money
B
"The most important thing I have learned on Tralfamadore is that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim Death
B
"Everything is nothing, and it's so peaceful."
Billy Pilgrim Peace
K
"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different"
Kurt Vonnegut Wisdom
B
"I wish you all the luck in the world"
Billy Pilgrim Hope
B
"Nice work if you can get it"
Billy Pilgrim Humor
B
"The only reason I'm telling you any of this is that I think you will find out how it is that we are going to come to the end of the world"
Billy Pilgrim
B
"I would hate to tell you what year this is"
Billy Pilgrim Time