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Ray Bradbury Quotes

Total quotes: 110
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
— Ray Bradbury, A quote by Ray Bradbury
Tagged: Taking Risks, Encouraging
“I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
Tagged: Flawed, human, Perfection, World, Life
“You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Love
“I’m numb and I’m tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I’m soaked to the skin with emotion.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Tagged: Numbness, Tiredness, emotions, Pain, Feelings
“It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know I’m drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can’t breathe.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Life, Relationship
“But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Human Society, Observation
“Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go.”
— Ray Bradbury, From the Dust Returned
Tagged: Love, Irony, Sunsets, Letting Go, Temporary, Flowers
“We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Tagged: Ray Bradbury, Creativity, Writing, Express, Essays
“Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you’re twenty.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Mistakes
“That’s life for you… Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can’t hurt you no more.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Ray Bradbury Collection: The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury(1987-09-03)
Tagged: Life, Waiting, Patience, Taken For Granted, Second Choice
“It’s just, I love to watch people too much, I guess.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: People Watching
“If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Tagged: Reality, Dream, Fantasy
“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 earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Tagged: Talent, Destroy
“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
“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
“We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
“It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Change, impact
“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
“Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
““It will only take a minute,” said Uncle Einar’s sweet wife.
“I refuse,” he said. “And that takes but a second.””
— Ray Bradbury, The October Country
“Well, I can’t waste a morning arguing with ten-year olds. Needless to say, I was ten myself once and just as silly.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
“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: Ray Bradbury, Creativity, Writing, Express, Essays
“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Tagged: Ray Bradbury, Creativity, Writing, Express, Essays
“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty, his eyes afire with admiration and cries, "That new story of yours was fine, really wonderful!”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Tagged: Ray Bradbury, Creativity, Writing, Express, Essays
“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Tagged: Creative, Ideas, Creativity
“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: insane, crazy
“What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Tagged: Ray Bradbury, Creativity, Writing, Express, Essays
“In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Tagged: Ray Bradbury, Creativity, Writing, Express, Essays
“I’m being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
“The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
“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
“Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
“"You take a man half-bad and a woman half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between. That's you [our son]."”
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I’ve got what amounts to a religion, now.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
“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
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