Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

When he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.

—Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451

More about this quote

Tags:
crying death
Permalink for this quote

About Ray Bradbury

Portrait of Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.

More quotations from Ray Bradbury

More quotations tagged with “death”

Arnold Bennett visited Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in his apartment and, knowing his host's love of flowers, was surprised that there was not a single vase of flowers to be seen. He remarked on their absence to Shaw: "But I thought you were so fond of flowers."
      "I am," said Shaw, "and I'm very fond of children, too, but I don't chop their heads off and stand them in pots about the house.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

More about this quote

Tags:
children death flowers decapitation
Permalink for this quote