Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

To live is to die.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Death is a very important part of life.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.