Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I think everybody's nuts.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

Life [had] replaced logic.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

Humor is reason gone mad.

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.