Ray Bradbury Quotes

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.

...an old man is twice a child.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.