Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle—field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

I accept your nomination in the confident trust that the masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them, forgetting that they have been enemies in the joyous consciousness that they are, and must henceforth remain brothers.

Yes, whatever is born, dies, but I thank life for gifting us a Nelson Mandela. He will sparkle in our consciousness for times to come.

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

All living things on earth are kindred.

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.