Ray Bradbury Quotes

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

We live in a niche world.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

When you really break it down to the way the world works, we're all little humans floating on a gas ball in the middle of space. That's the reality of our situation. And we've created these concepts and constructs that move us away from that.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions and billions of other pieces. Whether that's organic components, living organisms inside your body, bacteria or whatever it is, you're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.

There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself. All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. When you understand this, you begin experiencing life - and treating each other - in a new way.

We are all connected, and we are all One.

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.

There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking. And now the other person is no longer 'other.' In that space, you are joined together as one awareness, one consciousness.