Bugs In Amber Quotes & Sayings

Let the past abolish the past when
and if
it can substitute something better. — William Faulkner

People can be ... well, they can be wonderful. And sometimes, unfortunately, they can be monsters we hide from inside our homes. We worry that those monsters will find their way inside. We're not supposed to fear that they already are inside. Your mom and dad are supposed to protect you from that. They're not supposed to be the monster. — Samantha Young

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut

Emotions flickered in the amber depths, one after another, like lightning bugs winking on and off. Disgust. Anger. Mistrust. Suspicion. Curiosity. — Jennifer Estep

Apparently, though, fear was merely the mask fascination wore to hide itself from itself. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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and so on — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

..."That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?" "Yes." Billy, in fact had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three lady bugs embedded in it. "Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is now why. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

He has gone and we are missing him ! When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an empty, gnawing sort of sensation. — Jean Webster

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers. — John Maynard Keynes

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income — Samuel Butler

You can be for something and still be damaged by it. — Patterson Hood

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men. — Agnes Macphail

It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber." "You sound to me as though you don't believe in free will," said Billy Pilgrim. — Kurt Vonnegut

- Why me?
- That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
- Yes.
- Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why. — Kurt Vonnegut

That's why your poems can never be no more than a description of life. The page is finite. Once you put the words down on paper, you've fossilized your thought. Bugs in amber, nigger. But music is life itself. Music is time. Played live, played at seventy-eight rpms, thirty-three and a third, backwards, looped, whatever. There's no need for translation. You understand or you don't. — Paul Beatty

My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand. — Rudyard Kipling

There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs in Amber. — Kurt Vonnegut