Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Luck

Quotes about: Luck

• Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Luck, Awful

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.9, Random House

• The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, People, Luck

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

• The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teaching, Men, Hands

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

• I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Dumb

• Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dust, Hands, Wind

• Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Hands, Luck

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

• The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Two, Luck, Prime

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