6 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Fate

Kurt Vonnegut quotes on fate

38. I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

40. Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

53. We Bokonists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon 'If you find your life tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons,' writes Bokonon, 'that person may be a member of your karass.' At another point in The Books of Bokonon he tells us, 'Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.' By that he means that a karass ignores national, institutional, occupational, familial, and class boundaries. It is as free form as an amoeba.

61. So it goes.

135. I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

230. The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.