Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. Wir Deutsch fürchten Gott, aber sonst nichts in der Welt.

I am an atheist still, thank God.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom—he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

I don't think humor is something to be afraid of.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

I am not scared of anyone except the Almighty.

To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.