Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

The answer is there is no answer.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

No sense makes sense.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.