Kate Heston > Kate's Quotes

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― kurt vonnegut

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“All this happened, more or less.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up
Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Ting-a-ling mother fucker.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“It was all so sad. But it was all so beautiful, too.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I love her for that, because it was so human.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

“Run my dear,
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.”
― Hafez

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
― Hafiz

“An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.”
― Hafiz

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
―حافظ”
― Hafiz

“Light will someday split you open”
― Hafiz

“True art awakens the
Extraordinary
Ovation”
― Hafiz, The Gift

“My whole desire is to burn myself away.”
― Hafez, Hafiz of Shiraz: Thirty Poems: An Introduction to the Sufi Master

“I once asked a bird,
how is it that you fly
in this gravity of darkness?
The bird responded, 'Love lifts me.”
― Hāfez

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“The More Loving One

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.”
― W.H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”
― W.H. Auden, Acting Up

“We were put on this earth to make things. ”
― W.H. Auden

“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”
― W.H. Auden

“And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.”
― W.H. Auden