What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one,…

Kurt Vonnegut
638 citations
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
Humanity
29

More Author Quotes

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Bluebeard: A Novel, p.211, Dial Press
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Cat's Cradle: A Novel, p.98, Dial Press
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1988). Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Put … ▶

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes