Kurt Vonnegut — Quote from Timequake
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
Timequake (1997)
Concepts: absurd, freedom, authenticity
Resonant Quotes
- “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your lonelies...” — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science Vonnegut's playful nihilism provides a profound answer to Nietzsche's test of eternal recurrence—if life's meaning li...
- “I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I...” — Albert Camus, The Stranger Both embrace radical acceptance of life's arbitrary nature, with Camus's existential indifference finding its complem...
- “Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.” — Albert Camus, The Stranger Both embrace life's ultimate meaninglessness, but while Camus offers cold indifference, Vonnegut transforms nihilism ...
- “Anxiety is not something we have but something we are. It is our state of bei...” — Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety Vonnegut's irreverent embrace of purposelessness offers a liberating counterpoint to May's existential anxiety, sugge...
- “Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully. Now, no one w...” — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Both embrace life's meaninglessness as liberation—Camus through conscious acceptance of absurdity, Vonnegut through i...
- “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Ju...” — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Vonnegut's irreverent declaration provides a deliberately anti-philosophical answer to Camus's grave existential ques...
- “The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One m...” — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Both reject imposed purposes and find authentic meaning in unexpected places—Camus in the dignity of endless struggle...
- “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort o...” — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science Vonnegut's irreverent nihilism offers a darkly comic response to Nietzsche's existential crisis—if we've killed God a...