"The October Country" Quotes
"The October Country" is a collection of dark, atmospheric short stories by Ray Bradbury that explore the eerie and macabre sides of everyday life and human nature.
horror | 334 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
October is a symphony of permanence and change.
People locked doors for fear of the external, but left the inner doors wide open, so that the thing they feared most of all would enter and destroy them.
The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential.
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose.
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
All houses in which men have lived and died are haunted houses.
People are that way... they want to keep a firm hand on the collar of anyone who tries to help them.
Everything in this world exists to wear you down.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
