Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

How embarrassing it is to be human.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

We all have things we're ashamed of.

I am very, very painfully human.

I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.

Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

I'm terribly human.

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

My films are about embarrassment.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

My forte is awkwardness.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.