"During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American foot soldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice."
— Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut
"Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer: Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone.’"
— Kurt Vonnegut, from his bestseller, Timequake
(Source: Wikipedia)
"She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year;…her own birthday; and every other day individualized by incidents in which she had taken some share. She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it?"
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles
(Source: Wikipedia)
"But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about."
— Kurt Vonnegut from his bestseller, Timequake
"I do not fear death…
I fear the cause of death"
— road to minimal
"It is to be regretted that a portion of our community should be practically in slavery, but to propose to solve the problem by enslaving the entire community is childish."
— Oscar Wilde attacks the goal of full employment
"Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got."
— Art Buchwald (via nathanielstuart) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via allthatshines)
"do we use technology, or does technology use us?"
— Navin Kulshreshtha
"Your feet walk upon the Earth and through this your spirit is connected to the universe. Our feet are our contact with the Earth and the energies that flow through it."
— Cherokee “Moonmaiden” Jenny Wallace
