Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

I typically take life one day at a time.

At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

I learned when I was a kid not to worry so much about things because it's all going to work out. What will be will be.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait... No matter what... pressure... you might feel.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.

You have to take everything as it comes.

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.

Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

One must wait till it comes.

For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.