Ray Bradbury Life Quotations

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Life is "trying things to see if they work.

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

Life should be touched, not strangled.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13,

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

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

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

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

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe.... If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.