1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Işık gelene kadar bütün odalar karanlıktı. Ve işte o da oradaydı, aynı anda hepsinde birden. Ve yalnız değildi. Kederi engin bir kederin parçası, korkusu sayısız korkudan biriydi. Ve bu keder yarımdı. Diğer yarısı da vardı; doğan şeylerde, yeni bir çocuk biçimindeki rahatlamada, ısınan bedendeki yiyecekte, gözler için renklerde, dikkatli kulaklar için seslerde ve koklayanlar için baharın yabani çiçeklerinde.

Yalnızlık gözlerin kapanmasıydı. İnanç da yalnızca açılması.

İnsanlığın en harikulade şeyi bu; hiçbir zaman, her şeyi yeniden yapmasını engelleyecek kadar cesaretsizliğe veya iğrentiye kapılmaması, çünkü yaptığı işin ne kadar önemli ve yapmaya değer olduğunu bilir.

Bradbury virtually lived in the public libraries. of his time and came see the shelves as populations of living authors: to burn the book is to burn the author, and to burn the author is to deny our own humanity.

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.

Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what the books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.""Good.""They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.