“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Death, Darkness, Loss
“Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles & smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, pretending, Lies
“Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Thinking, Acting, Death
“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Art, Miracles, Science
“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Future, Past, present
“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Life, Questions, enjoy life
“We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were a…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Faith, Life, Art, Religion
“The Animal does not question life. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Animals, Life, enjoy life
“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Books, Happiness, Universe
“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, amazon.comTagged: Television, electronics, Thinking, Intelligence
“I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Choices, Right, Wrong
“We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it well be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me. Look at the world out there, my God,…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Universe, Life, live life
“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: chances, risks, Bravery
“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Mistakes, Ignorance, Learning
“Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? 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, amazon.comTagged: Important, real, bothered
“But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Souls, lost, found
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”— Ray Bradbury, books.google.comTagged: Love, Life, Answers
“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, amazon.comTagged: Life, Privilege, Writing
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Reality, Writing, Life