Kurt Vonnegut Beautiful Quotations

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.

All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

In the water I am beautiful.

There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. 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.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.