Top 500 Ray Bradbury Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

— Ray Bradbury

102. “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”

— Ray Bradbury

103. “Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”

— Ray Bradbury

104. “The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”

— Ray Bradbury

105. “An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.”

— Ray Bradbury

106. “Love is easy, and I love writing.”

— Ray Bradbury

107. “In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.”

— Ray Bradbury

108. “Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.”

— Ray Bradbury

109. “If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.”

— Ray Bradbury

110. “Stuff your eyes with wonder.”

— Ray Bradbury

111. “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.”

— Ray Bradbury

112. “I have two rules in life – to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.”

— Ray Bradbury

113. “Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there’s a certain point beyond which you say, “There are no answers.””

— Ray Bradbury

114. “Don’t write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won’t write anything worth reading.”

— Ray Bradbury

115. “You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.”

— Ray Bradbury

116. “It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can’t breathe.”

— Ray Bradbury

117. “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

— Ray Bradbury

118. “Too much of anything isn’t good for anyone.”

— Ray Bradbury

119. “Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.”

— Ray Bradbury

120. “I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.”

— Ray Bradbury

121. “If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.”

— Ray Bradbury

122. “People try to force things. It’s disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.”

— Ray Bradbury

123. “You don’t have to worry about the future, you don’t worry about the past – you just explode.”

— Ray Bradbury

124. “We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.”

— Ray Bradbury

125. “The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.”

— Ray Bradbury

126. “Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.”

— Ray Bradbury

127. “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

128. “Beer’s intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”

— Ray Bradbury

129. “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

130. “Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”

— Ray Bradbury

131. “And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.”

— Ray Bradbury

132. “Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.”

— Ray Bradbury

133. “Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can’t think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don’t build a story; you allow it to explode.”

— Ray Bradbury

134. “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

135. “Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”

— Ray Bradbury

136. “We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”

— Ray Bradbury

137. “Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.”

— Ray Bradbury

138. “Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.”

— Ray Bradbury

139. “Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.”

— Ray Bradbury

140. “It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.”

— Ray Bradbury

141. “And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...”

— Ray Bradbury

142. “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

143. “I don’t write science fiction. I’ve only done one science fiction book and that’s Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.”

— Ray Bradbury

144. “Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”

— Ray Bradbury

145. “I shall remain on Mars and read a book.”

— Ray Bradbury

146. “Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.”

— Ray Bradbury

147. “Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Ray Bradbury

148. “If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.”

— Ray Bradbury

149. “I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.”

— Ray Bradbury

150. “Write what you love and love what you write.”

— Ray Bradbury