6 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Fear

Kurt Vonnegut quotes on fear

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.

27. Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.

74. When I was a naive young recruit in Spain, I used to wonder why soldiers bayoneted oil paintings, shot the noses off statues and defecated into grand pianos. I now understand: it was to teach civilians the deepest sort of respect for men in uniform - uncontrollable fear.

145. If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

205. Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

211. We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.