Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Feelings, Feeling Sad, Matter

• I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Feelings

• My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Feelings, Wickedness, Adultery

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.87, Penguin

• Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memories, Men, Feelings

• The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Army, Feelings, Soldier

• I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.

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  Dog, Brother, War

• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, College

• There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

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  Strong, Real, Artist

• There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Destiny, Feelings, Far Away

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.23, Random House

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