Frost and Fire Quotes

“Enemies come, too, from opinions and thoughts. In five seconds you’ve made an enemy for life. Life’s so short enemies must be made quickly.”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire

“Don’t you realize that if you are not careful you’ll miss all of life?”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire

“Things are balanced. Our minds, to even things, to balance the unfairness of our living, go back in on ourselves, to find what there is that is good to see.”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire

“War!” The thought stood in Sim’s brain. It shocked and beat at him. These men were running to fight, to kill, over there in those small black cliffs where other people lived. But why? Wasn’t life short enough without fighting, killing?”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire

“They were driven, as always, by the mercurial speed of their lives.”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire

“At the top of the hill, Sim saw once again the far off metal seed. Nobody ever looked at it, or spoke of it. Why? Was there some reason? Was it a mirage? Why did they not run toward it? Worship it? Try to get to it and fly away into space?”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire

“Life was pushing him, rushing him along toward oblivion.”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire

“Laughter! Far away, Sim heard it. Why laughter? How could any of his people find time for laughing? Perhaps later he would discover why.”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire

“Life’s so short enemies must be made quickly.”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire

“everything tried to get its living done in the brief hour of respite. It”
― Ray Bradbury, Frost and Fire