Top 500 Ray Bradbury Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed.”

— Ray Bradbury

52. “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

— Ray Bradbury

53. “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

— Ray Bradbury

54. “I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.”

— Ray Bradbury

55. “Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”

— Ray Bradbury

56. “Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

— Ray Bradbury

57. “A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.”

— Ray Bradbury

58. “All education is self-discovery.”

— Ray Bradbury

59. “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

— Ray Bradbury

60. “Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that’s life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.”

— Ray Bradbury

61. “To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.”

— Ray Bradbury

62. “That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”

— Ray Bradbury

63. “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”

— Ray Bradbury

64. “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”

— Ray Bradbury

65. “I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.”

— Ray Bradbury

66. “You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you’re hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.”

— Ray Bradbury

67. “Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.”

— Ray Bradbury

68. “Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.”

— Ray Bradbury

69. “We can’t live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.”

— Ray Bradbury

70. “People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.”

— Ray Bradbury

71. “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”

— Ray Bradbury

72. “Every story I’ve written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

— Ray Bradbury

73. “Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.”

— Ray Bradbury

74. “It was a pleasure to burn.”

— Ray Bradbury

75. “The Internet is a big distraction. It’s distracting, it’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”

— Ray Bradbury

76. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.”

— Ray Bradbury

77. “That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.”

— Ray Bradbury

78. “Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.”

— Ray Bradbury

79. “Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds.”

— Ray Bradbury

80. “If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.”

— Ray Bradbury

81. “Do what you love, don’t do anything else.”

— Ray Bradbury

82. “In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.”

— Ray Bradbury

83. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”

— Ray Bradbury

84. “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”

— Ray Bradbury

85. “Digression is the soul of wit.”

— Ray Bradbury

86. “Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

— Ray Bradbury

87. “In that film Love Story, there’s a line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you’re sorry every day for some little thing or other.”

— Ray Bradbury

88. “I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.”

— Ray Bradbury

89. “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”

— Ray Bradbury

90. “I believe in creative failing – to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you’ve got a thousand poems behind you and you’re relaxed and you finally write a good poem.”

— Ray Bradbury

91. “If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.”

— Ray Bradbury

92. “I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.”

— Ray Bradbury

93. “The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.”

— Ray Bradbury

94. “So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”

— Ray Bradbury

95. “Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!”

— Ray Bradbury

96. “Everything is generated through your own will power. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.”

— Ray Bradbury

97. “Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn’t afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.”

— Ray Bradbury

98. “Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”

— Ray Bradbury

99. “Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.”

— Ray Bradbury

100. “You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can’t sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”

— Ray Bradbury