Slaughterhouse-Five

Book · 5 characters · 503 quotes · 1968

Quotes from Slaughterhouse-Five

B
"Do you know what a library is?"
Billy Pilgrim Education
B
"It's so nice to have people think you're dead."
Billy Pilgrim Humor
B
"It is just that we are Earthlings trapped by time."
Billy Pilgrim Time
T
"That is a very Earthling thing to do."
Tralfamadorian Philosophy
B
"One day a Tralfamadorian will come to Earth."
Billy Pilgrim Imagination
T
"The moment is structured that way."
Tralfamadorian Time
B
"I love you. I hate you. It's the same thing."
Billy Pilgrim Relationships
B
"Serenity Now."
Billy Pilgrim Peace
B
"Everything is nothing, and nothing is everything."
Billy Pilgrim Philosophy
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim Life
B
"I have come unstuck in time."
Billy Pilgrim Time
T
"The universe doesn't care. Time is an illusion."
Tralfamadorian Philosophy
B
"Everything is beautiful now."
Billy Pilgrim Beauty
B
"That's nice."
Billy Pilgrim Happiness
B
"What is the purpose of life?"
Billy Pilgrim Philosophy
B
"It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one."
Billy Pilgrim Time
B
"Congratulations on your baby, congratulations on it."
Billy Pilgrim Family
T
"The moment is structured that way."
Tralfamadorian Philosophy
B
"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Billy Pilgrim Life
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
"Yes, I understand it at last. This is the only stable thing in the Universe."
Billy Pilgrim Philosophy
B
"That is my principal contribution to science."
Billy Pilgrim Science
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim Life
B
"I have this disease late in life. It's a very sudden disease."
Billy Pilgrim Wisdom
B
"I wish you all good luck."
Billy Pilgrim Hope
E
"Take it easy, Billy."
Eliot Rosewater Peace
T
"There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects."
Tralfamadorian Literature
B
"I am a Earthling. I am from planet Earth, which you probably know."
Billy Pilgrim
T
"The moment is structured that way."
Tralfamadorian Time