Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

• Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

• About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Kurt Vonnegut (2001). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

• It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Men, Laughing

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Punishment, Afterlife, Expectations

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