Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Tragedy

Quotes about: Tragedy

• She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Intelligent, Evil

• I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  "The Best Jokes Are Dangerous, An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Part Three". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.mcsweeneys.net. September 18, 2002.

• This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Tragedy, Changed, Audience

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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