Quote #95636
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
Kurt Vonnegut
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line asserts that love is not fundamentally scarce; what is scarce is attention, receptivity, and the willingness to notice it. It implies that people often experience emotional deprivation not because the world lacks care, but because they overlook everyday forms of kindness—small gestures, ordinary loyalties, quiet solidarities. The conditional clause (“if people will just look”) shifts responsibility from fate to perception and choice: one can cultivate a practice of seeing love rather than assuming its absence. In a Vonnegutian register, the sentiment also reads as a humane corrective to cynicism—an insistence that tenderness persists amid cruelty, and that recognizing it is a moral and psychological discipline.




