Quotes About Slaughterhouse Five

#1. The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.

Milan Kundera

#2. They should rule who are able to rule best.

Aristotle.

#3. Dystopian Cybernetic Environment in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

Ruzbeh Babaee

#4. The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve
it feels good to finally laugh about Iraq. Fobbit deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse Five and Catch-22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war.

Jonathan Evison

#6. Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs dropping and bodies blowing up and war sucking.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. Patience mimics the power of infinity.

Brandon Mull

#9. The demons almost got me! But glory be to Jesus, and when he arrives on his flying saucer from the planet Jupiter I'll be there on the golden shore to kiss his hand!

Robert McCammon

#10. Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. For true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

Ellen Buckingham Mathews

#12. If everybody would leave him alone for just a little while, he thought, he
wouldn't cause anybody any more trouble. He would turn to steam and float up among
the treetops.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Billy Pilgrim: "You guys go on without me. I'll be alright."
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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

Warren Buffett

#16. I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

Jerry Garcia

#17. Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

Chloe Thurlow

#18. I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.

Olivia Wilde

#19. I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

Andrew Buchan

#20. Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with helping others' development, rather than with self-enhancement or self-employment.

Jean Baker Miller

#21. The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. ... it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because they were not, as I saw it, my readers. More exactly they were readers of themselves, my book being a sort of magnifying glass ... by which I could give them the means to read within themselves.

Marcel Proust

#23. Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

Steve Garvey

#24. There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

Dan Simmons

#25. The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Kurt Vonnegut