“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”
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American author 1928–1982Related quotes
“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, st. 7 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
Source: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, The Conquest of the Self-Evident; Dostoievsky’s Philosophy p. 3
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
Source: Lullaby
“If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.”
Source: Unseen Academicals
On humans, interviewed by Jon Stewart, The Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=18090&title=kurt-vonnegut/ (13 September 2005)
Various interviews
“You cannot repress anger or love, or avoid feeling them, and you should not try.”
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: p>I shall go my ways, tread out my measure,
Fill the days of my daily breath
With fugitive things not good to treasure,
Do as the world doth, say as it saith;
But if we had loved each other — O sweet,
Had you felt, lying under the palms of your feet,
The heart of my heart, beating harder with pleasure
To feel you tread it to dust and death —Ah, had I not taken my life up and given
All that life gives and the years let go,
The wine and honey, the balm and leaven,
The dreams reared high and the hopes brought low?
Come life, come death, not a word be said;
Should I lose you living, and vex you dead?
I never shall tell you on earth; and in heaven,
If I cry to you then, will you hear or know?</p