Fahrenheit 451 quotes
It was a pleasure to burn.
The good writers touch life often.
We must all be alike.
I’m seventeen and I’m crazy.
The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book.
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
Don’t give up! I believe in you all. A person’s a person, no matter how small!
Those who don’t build must burn.
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
We are all fools and all clowns.
Nobody listens any more. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
You can’t have a civilisation without unrest.
There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house.
The magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing.
If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.
You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
The truth is, books are dangerous.
The good writers touch life often.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said.
It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away.
We’re all fools, said Clemens, all the time.
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law.
Nobody listens any more.
We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for a thousand years, and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we’ll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember, every generation.
Fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later.
Get the hell out of that stuffy hole!
Mankind traded its soul for the illusion of happiness.
He walked out of the firelight.
He was not happy.
Once in a while a man or a woman too finds something in the records that do belong there.
His hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruin of history.
Your ‘why’ is the greatest possession you own.
Bird, Montag, bird, one of these days, after a long walk, meet me on the other side.
There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house.
Sweep out the ashes.
They were given the word to make the best of what was left to them.
Every man must leave something behind when he dies.
We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year.
He is nothing to me, nothing. He shouldn’t have had books.
Those who don’t build must burn.
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.
Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality.
The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.
A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it!