Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

The universe is a great mystery.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

I hope Let Me In doesn't encourage it! I mean, vampires might be real! Honestly, I don't know. It's like saying aliens are real. I don't know. We are so tiny in the spectrum of the universe, we're a speck of dust compared to some galaxies, and so who knows what's out there? We barely even know our own - we know more about space than we know about our own sea.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

There is no shame in admitting that the ultimate principle of all the wonders of the universe is unknown to us.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're planted here, or what's on the other side of the galaxy, or when time began, or when time end. The whole nature of reality is pretty up for grabs, really.

The greatest mystery of all is reality.