"Slaughterhouse-Five" Quotes
"Slaughterhouse-Five" follows Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist and former soldier, as he becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences the events of his life, including his abduction by aliens and the bombing of Dresden during World War II.
classics | 228 pages | Published in 1991
Quotes
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die.
You were just babies in the war—like the ones upstairs!
Poo-tee-weet?
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
It is just an illusion we have 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.
