Slaughterhouse Quotes

Slaughterhouse Quote of the day

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

All this happened, more or less.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!

We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife