Slaughterhouse-Five

"Time is an illusion. We are always dying."

"I have become unstuck in space and time."

"The only reason I'm tall is so I can see better at concerts."

"The past cannot be changed. The future is set. Do not mourn."

"Money and the things that money can buy are wonderful."

"One moment please. I am not able to see things the way you are able to see them."

"I wish you all the best."

"Smoking too much and not exercising does not make a person live longer."

"That is a very Earthling thing to do. I'd never heard of it before."

"You know what I say to people when I hear they're getting a divorce? I say, 'How nice for you.'"

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

"How nice—that we have a place in this universe for people like that."

"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."

"Those who have passed through the doors of death have nothing more to fear."

"The Universe doesn't care."

"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.'"

"When the saucer lands, everybody can see it. So they're looking at the sky."

"It is time for me to be dead."

"The most important thing I've learned here is that every person has to love every moment of life because those moments will never happen again."

"That was I. That was the author of this book."

"I have this disease late in life. It's a very public disease, because I die all the time, so to speak."

"Welcome to the machine."

"All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."

"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts."

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

"Tralfamadorians don't see people as buried and they don't see people as dying. They see them as if they're alive."

"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, so it is all right to ignore somebody who has just died, because of the horrible things they have done."

"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to work on engines of destruction. I have also told them that it is not a crime to think that it is."

"It would be nice if we saw more of the war as it was."

"What was the use?"