5 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Emotion

Kurt Vonnegut quotes on emotion

19. I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

20. People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

205. Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

226. I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.

233. We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.