Top 500 Ray Bradbury Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 4 of 10

151. “Happiness is important. Fun is everything.”

— Ray Bradbury

152. “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

153. “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

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

157. “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

158. “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

159. “The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.”

— Ray Bradbury

160. “Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ’em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our official slogan.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

162. “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

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

165. “What’s the point of having a library full of books you’ve already read?”

— Ray Bradbury

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Ray Bradbury

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Ray Bradbury

175. “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

176. “Creativity is a continual surprise.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

178. “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

179. “A conglomerate heap of trash, that’s what I am. But it burns with a high flame.”

— Ray Bradbury

180. “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

181. “So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

183. “You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.”

— Ray Bradbury

184. “The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”

— Ray Bradbury

185. “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.”

— Ray Bradbury

186. “My stories are warnings; they’re not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn’t do them. Because then I’d be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

188. “If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don’t.”

— Ray Bradbury

189. “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

190. “But souls can’t be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.”

— Ray Bradbury

191. “It could reach up and grab the moon.”

— Ray Bradbury

192. “You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.”

— Ray Bradbury

193. “You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the work done. For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

195. “When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

— Ray Bradbury

196. “Cuando ya no hay nada que perder, se puede correr cualquier riesgo.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

198. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

— Ray Bradbury

199. “I love the musical form of books. It’s a different way of doing things, it’s very beautiful. You’re able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck – why not do them?”

— Ray Bradbury

200. “The terrible tyranny of the majority.”

— Ray Bradbury