Ray Bradbury Quotes

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

It matters not how long we live but how.

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

So that my life be brave, what though not long?

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.