Slaughterhouse-Five

Book · 5 characters · 503 quotes · 1968

Quotes from Slaughterhouse-Five

T
"Every moment, contains all moments"
Tralfamadorian Philosophy
K
"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres"
Kurt Vonnegut Peace
B
"The truth is, I am two people now"
Billy Pilgrim Truth
B
"The most important thing I have learned is that soldiers are dreamers too"
Billy Pilgrim Dreams
K
"And 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'"
Kurt Vonnegut Happiness
B
"How lonely it is!"
Billy Pilgrim Solitude
B
"Death is nothing at all."
Billy Pilgrim Death
B
"The Tralfamadorians are the ones who know what's really going on."
Billy Pilgrim Knowledge
B
"We are here on Earth to fart around."
Billy Pilgrim Wisdom
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim Life
B
"I am a Earthling, trapped by the circumstances of my planet and my era."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"Tralfamadorians don't believe in free will."
Billy Pilgrim Freedom
B
"The Tralfamadorians say that every creature in the universe is a machine."
Billy Pilgrim Philosophy
B
"People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to look back anymore."
Billy Pilgrim Wisdom
B
"The most important thing I have to tell you is that I am still alive."
Billy Pilgrim Hope
T
"Moments simply are."
Tralfamadorian Time
B
"Where are we, now?"
Billy Pilgrim Time
T
"Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly so much as they have to do."
Tralfamadorian Philosophy
B
"The most important thing I have learned is that human beings are sacred."
Billy Pilgrim Wisdom
B
"Tralfamador looked pretty much like a flying saucer."
Billy Pilgrim Imagination
T
"The moment is structured that way."
Tralfamadorian Time
K
"And 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.'"
Kurt Vonnegut Happiness
E
"Drink calmly and let the uproar rage on outside."
Eliot Rosewater Wisdom
T
"Everything that ever happens is supposed to happen."
Tralfamadorian
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim Happiness
T
"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Tralfamadorian 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
"The only way to do anything is to do nothing at all."
Billy Pilgrim Philosophy
B
"Unstuck in time is what everyone wants to be."
Billy Pilgrim Dreams
T
"The events of life are already determined."
Tralfamadorian Philosophy