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Ray Bradbury Quotes

Total quotes: 62
“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Tagged: Art, Miracles, Science
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
— Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
Tagged: Acceptance, Rejection, self control, self awareness, Happiness, one perfect sentence, said to exes, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Beginnings, Beginning, moment, kindness, heart, Love
“Love will fly if held too lightly, love will die if held too tightly.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.”
— Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight
Tagged: Souls, lost, found
“Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: eating, food, differences
“And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: senses, Universe, Life
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
— Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer
Tagged: Life, Learning, relax
“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Tagged: Fear, Future, Past, present
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
— Ray Bradbury, In Love And War
Tagged: Love, Life, Answers
“'Why is it,' he said, one time, at the subway entrance, 'I feel I've known you so many years?'
'Because I like you,' she said, 'and I don't want anything from you.’”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Relationships, Love
“To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. We do not want that.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
Tagged: Death, Life, Sleeping, Dancing
“The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: Learning, Life, stupidity, Fools
“I’m really alive! I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: alive, Life, enjoy life
“Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: ugly, beauty, Children, aduls
“The Animal does not question life. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Tagged: Animals, Life, enjoy life
“I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Fear, Choices, Right, Wrong
“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Tagged: Life, Privilege, Writing
“I like to cry. After I cry hard it’s like it’s morning again and I’m starting the day over.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: Crying, Tears, fresh start
“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Television, electronics, Thinking, Intelligence
“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: enjoy life, travel, Life
“Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the centre of your life.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
Tagged: Pursuing Your Passion
“Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?”
— Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Bridge, Communication, Communications, Light, Mirror Writing, Thought Catalog Producers
“From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
Tagged: Life, Death, Regrets
“The quality of death, like that of life, must be of an infinite variety, and if one has already died once, then what was there to look for in dying for good and all, as he was now?”
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
Tagged: Death, Quality, Life
“Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
Tagged: Memories, Sadness, Past
“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: Life, alive, enjoy life
“Pictures? No, they lie. You’re not the picture. My dear, you’re not the dates, or the ink, or the paper. You’re not these trunks of junk and dust. You’re only you, here, now—the present you.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: present, Time, Past, Memories
“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Life, enjoy life
“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Death, risks, Bravery
“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: chances, risks, Bravery
“A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: Medicine, cure, Sleeping, eating
“I’m alive. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: Life, alive, pay attention, Perspective
“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Hero, Books, rescued
“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Tagged: Life, Questions, enjoy life
“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Mistakes, Ignorance, Learning
“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Books, Happiness, Universe
“Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: Family, Death, Children
“Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles & smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up.”
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Tagged: Happiness, pretending, Lies
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