Death Quotes by Ray Bradbury

“Ignorance is fatal.”

— Ray Bradbury

A day without writing was a little death.

— Ray Bradbury

“Later in the morning Saul tried to die.”

— Ray Bradbury

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags.

— Ray Bradbury

“the city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of its death came after.”

— Ray Bradbury

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

— Ray Bradbury

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

— Ray Bradbury

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

— Ray Bradbury

“And the sea moved her back down the shore.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Life is short, misery sure, mortality certain.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before death is what counts.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Will we ever stop being afraid of nights and death? When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all…

— Ray Bradbury

“Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.”

— Ray Bradbury

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it…

— Ray Bradbury

“Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it?”

— Ray Bradbury

“had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man”

— Ray Bradbury

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

— Ray Bradbury

“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die,…

— Ray Bradbury

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

— Ray Bradbury

“Once you kill all of us, and you're alone, you'll die! The hate will die. That hate is what moves you, nothing…

— Ray Bradbury

“And in the years when your shadow leaned clear across the land as you lay abed nights with your heartbeat mounting to…

— Ray Bradbury

“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

“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween…

— Ray Bradbury

“I've tasted every victual and danced every dance; now there's one last tart I haven't bit on, one time I haven't whistled.…

— Ray Bradbury

“The quality of death, like that of life, must be of an infinite variety, and if one has already died once, then…

— Ray Bradbury

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

“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

“They walked over to the body, thinking that perhaps they could still save the man’s life. They couldn’t believe that there wasn’t…

— Ray Bradbury

“Bleak pushed the chair around a corner so the light of the dying sun stained their faces a healthy red, and added,…

— Ray Bradbury

“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

“When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had…

— Ray Bradbury

“And me not sleeping tonight or tomorrow night or any night for a long while, now that this has started. And he…

— Ray Bradbury

“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

“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

“He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was in a…

— Ray Bradbury

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

“To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead.…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

“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

“Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to learn you…

— Ray Bradbury