Slaughterhouse-Five

"Why me? Why anything?"

"The most important thing I have ever learned is that falling down is not a disgrace."

"People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore."

"It is hard to adapt to the idea of the future when you are constantly dwelling in the past."

"The important thing is that you are alive now."

"Everything that happens has happened before. Everything happens at the same time."

"That is what I learned in the war."

"I hate it when you cannot tell the difference between your dreams and your reality."

"That is very kind of you."

"It is so simple. So you think that is the main thing I have to tell you?"

"He says Earth is Hell. That is another idea I got from him."

"The past does not change. The future does not change. Things simply are."

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."

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

"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts."

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

"I wish you all luck."

"It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string."

"Beware of the dog that does not bark."

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

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

"Tralfamadorians don't see time the way we do."

"Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly so much as they do. I learned that on Tralfamadore."

"The war was fake"

"Lot's wife. She was told not to look back"

"My son would not talk to me"

"Tralfamadorians are four-dimensional beings"

"I have this disease late in life. It's very easy to cure. You die"

"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts"

"Every moment, past, present, and future, always has existed, always will exist."