Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“the city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of its death came after.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to learn you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I leave you gifts of Fate most secret; find no other's Fate, For if you do, no grave is deep enough for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn them… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I never liked lobster in my life, and mainly because I’d never tried it. On my eightieth birthday I tried it. I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was in a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Tom," she said, faintly, far away, "in the Southern Seas there's a day in each man's life when he knows it's time… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Bleak pushed the chair around a corner so the light of the dying sun stained their faces a healthy red, and added,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Death was his little sister one morning when he awoke at the age of seven, looked into her crib, and saw her… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And me not sleeping tonight or tomorrow night or any night for a long while, now that this has started. And he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before death is what counts.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Will we ever stop being afraid of nights and death? When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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.' — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“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… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
