Slaughterhouse 5 Quotes

#1. For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall.

Brian Viglione

#2. I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in the group, 'cause everybody has rewrote their sh*t except for me.

Joe Budden

#3. 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

#4. God went out of me
as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun
became a latrine.
God went out of my fingers.
They became stone.
My body became a side of mutton
and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.

Anne Sexton

#5. the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#6. Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

Erwin Chargaff

#7. Go down any road far enough
and you'll come to a slaughterhouse,
but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Dean Young

#8. Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#9. It's a common slander of the Jews, but it's no slander of a huge fraction of the Germans. They went like sheep to the slaughterhouse. And then they donned the rubber aprons and set to work.

Martin Amis

#10. In the heart of the slaughterhouse
always
enough room to nourish the awe.

John Nichols

#11. Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.

Theodor W. Adorno

#12. The institution was a cross between an orphanage and a slaughterhouse. Worst of all, it was run entirely by norms. The word alone would set my chin trembling. I would beg and grieve and he would allow that I deserved another chance.

Katherine Dunn

#13. It smelled like a slaughterhouse. I was standing in the interrogation room of Saddam Hussein's Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. A stench of blood and death permeated my senses, my clothes, my being.

Bernard B. Kerik

#14. 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

#15. Billy Pilgrim: "You guys go on without me. I'll be alright."
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant - (sighs deeply). Oh, fuck it.

-M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Wes Anderson

#18. Show me a quest for personal immortality and I'll show you a path through a slaughterhouse, and the incense of personal divinity is the stench of other people's corpses.

Barry Hughart

#19. Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

Jami Attenberg

#20. It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed ...

Minette Walters

#21. You have just dined," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." The

Michael Pollan

#22. No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.

L. M. Boyd

#23. What sort of God would put us here in this goddamned, stinking slaughterhouse of a world?

William Lindsay Gresham

#24. Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

Erasmus Darwin

#25. 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

#26. They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. 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

#28. I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with
a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.

Albert Schweitzer

#29. 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

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

Ruzbeh Babaee

#31. MR. MOUSTAFA
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once know as humanity... He was one of them. What more is there to say?

Wes Anderson

#32. And workers who needed to go to the bathroom weren't allowed to take a break. They were forced to pee right on the slaughterhouse floor, near meat that people would soon be eating.

Eric Schlosser