Alive Quotes by Ray Bradbury

15 Alive quotes by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury’s prose often feels like a warm fire. In these fifteen quotations, he blends lyrical imagination with heartfelt reflections on the wonder of being alive.

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

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I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

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Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

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How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

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You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

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I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look…

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“The blows of his heart might jar him loose, crash him down, but he was glad to hear them, know himself alive.”

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

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This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever,…

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I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't…

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And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is…

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It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a…

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And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is…

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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms.…

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Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

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Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

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“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

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We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny…

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I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

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We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves…

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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

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But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

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