Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

I don't want to not be important.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

The image is not important.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

What is the value of your existence?

I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.

Nothing is important.

Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

When I choose what I do, I ask, 'Does it make a difference?'

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

I'm just trying to matter.

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?