Ray Bradbury Quotes

It is certain because it is impossible.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

No sense makes sense.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

The answer is there is no answer.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

My search not only failed, but I convinced myself that all those who had searched like myself had failed also, and come like me to the despairing conviction that the only absolute knowledge man can possess is this—that life is without a meaning.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile