18 Of The Most Important Quotes From 'Fahrenheit 451'

18 quotes

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

“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”

“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.com

Tagged: Fear, Afraid

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your…”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Leave, Dying

“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Mistakes

“That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Faith, strength, Worth It

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

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Dying, Good, Risk

“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Listening, Read

“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Holding

“It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Change, impact

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Loaded Gun, Target

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Listen

“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, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he…”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Mourning, Sad

“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.com

Tagged: Books, Book Lover

“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: saving, Save Yourself

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: insane, crazy

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

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

Tagged: Ignorance, Learning

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Burning, Staying

“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.com

Tagged: Bother, Alone