Top 500 Ray Bradbury Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.”

— Ray Bradbury

152. “The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

154. “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

155. “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

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156. “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

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

— Ray Bradbury

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158. “Creativity is a continual surprise.”

— Ray Bradbury

159. “I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

161. “Joy is the grace we say to God.”

— Ray Bradbury

162. “I’m not a science-fiction writer. I’ve only written one book that’s science fiction, and that’s Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

164. “Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

166. “I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

168. “This is the emotional thing, you see – you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.”

— Ray Bradbury

169. “Everything is generated through your own will power.”

— Ray Bradbury

170. “I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.”

— Ray Bradbury

171. “A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’ Pope.”

— Ray Bradbury

172. “Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.”

— Ray Bradbury

173. “Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.”

— Ray Bradbury

174. “A life’s work should be based on love.”

— Ray Bradbury

175. “Don’t ever be a Rocket Man.” I stopped. “I mean it,” he said. “Because when you’re out there you want to be here, and when you’re here you want to be out there. Don’t start that.”

— Ray Bradbury

176. “In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.”

— Ray Bradbury

177. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.”

— Ray Bradbury

178. “They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.”

— Ray Bradbury

179. “All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It’s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I’ve won or lost. At sunrise, I’m out again, giving it the old try.”

— Ray Bradbury

180. “I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.”

— Ray Bradbury

181. “Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars.”

— Ray Bradbury

182. “When they give you lined paper, write the other way.”

— Ray Bradbury

183. “The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”

— Ray Bradbury

184. “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

185. “Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.”

— Ray Bradbury

186. “From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.”

— Ray Bradbury

187. “Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it’s up to you to know with which ear you’ll listen.”

— Ray Bradbury

188. “I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.”

— Ray Bradbury

189. “It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”

— Ray Bradbury

190. “When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.”

— Ray Bradbury

191. “Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.”

— Ray Bradbury

192. “We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.”

— Ray Bradbury

193. “Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don’t have enough brains to have your good taste.”

— Ray Bradbury

194. “Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.”

— Ray Bradbury

195. “Heaven is a house with porch lights.”

— Ray Bradbury

196. “Those who don’t build must burn.”

— Ray Bradbury

197. “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

198. “Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, ‘Take me home!’ And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I’ve written every day in the last 75 years. I’ve never stopped writing.”

— Ray Bradbury

199. “Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.”

— Ray Bradbury

200. “There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.”

— Ray Bradbury

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