Quotes from the novel "Fahrenheit 451"
The collection includes quotes from the novel Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury, published in 1953:
It would be funny if it weren't so serious. Faber
I also thought about books. And for the first time I realized that behind each of them there is a person. The man thought, harbored thoughts within himself. I spent a lot of time writing them down on paper. But it never even occurred to me before. Montag
A man who can disassemble and reassemble a television wall - and most people can do this these days - is much happier than a man who tries to measure and quantify the Universe, for you cannot measure or quantify it without also feeling how insignificant and alone you are.
Being a dying person has its advantages. When you have nothing to lose, you are not afraid of risk.
A person in our time is like a paper napkin: they blow their nose into it, crumple it, throw it away, take a new one, blow it, crumple it, throw it... Clarissa McLellan's uncle
You don’t need books, but what was once in them, what could still be in the programs of our living rooms.
Organize various competitions, for example: who can best remember the words to popular songs, who can name all the main cities in the states, or who knows how much grain was harvested in Iowa last year. Fill people's heads with numbers, fill them with harmless facts until they feel sick, nothing, but they will think that they are very educated. Beatty
Everything you are looking for, Montag, exists in the world, but an ordinary person can only see one hundredth with his own eyes, and the remaining ninety-nine percent he learns through a book. Faber
People now have no time for each other. Clarissa McLellan
You are afraid of making mistakes again. But don't be afraid. Mistakes are sometimes useful. Faber
Technology and mass consumption are what led to the current situation.
The home environment can negate much of what school is trying to instill.
This fire seemed strange to Montag, because it now meant to him something completely different from what it used to mean. This fire did not burn anything - it warmed... He didn’t even know that fire could be like this. He didn’t even suspect that fire can not only take away, but also give. Even the smell of this fire was completely different.
If you open my skull and peer into the convolutions of my brain, you will find his fingerprints there. Granger
By ourselves we mean nothing. We are not important, but what we keep within ourselves.
If a person thinks that he can deceive the government and us, he is crazy.
First of all, we must build a mirror factory. And in the coming year, give out mirrors, mirrors, nothing but mirrors, so that humanity can take a good look at themselves in them. Granger
Magazines have become a kind of vanilla syrup. Books are in sweetened slop.
He finally understood why he should never burn again. The sun shines every day. It burns Time. The universe rushes in a circle and spins around its axis. Time burns years and people, burns itself, without the help of Montag.
You know, books smell like nutmeg or some other spices from distant overseas countries. As a child I loved to smell books.
No, nothing disappears without a trace.
And, as before, burning was a pleasure - it was nice to give vent to your anger, to burn, tear, destroy, tear to shreds, destroy a meaningless problem. There is no decision? So, now there will be no problem! Fire resolves everything! Montag
It didn’t start with any regulations, not with orders or censorship restrictions. No! Technology and mass consumption are what led to the current situation. Beatty
Everyone does what they can.
We are not important, but what we keep within ourselves. Someday people will need it. But notice that even in those ancient times when we freely held books in our hands, we did not use everything they gave us. We continued to desecrate the memory of the dead, we spat on the graves of those who lived before us.
Books are just one of the containers where we store what we are afraid to forget.
My grandfather said: “Everyone should leave something behind. A son, or a book, or a painting, a house you built, or at least a brick wall, or a pair of shoes you sewed, or a garden planted by your hands. Something that your fingers touched during life, in which your soul will find refuge after death.
A book can be defeated with the power of the mind.
I need to talk, but there is no one to listen to me. I can't talk to walls, they scream at me. I can't talk to my wife, she only listens to the walls. I want someone to listen to me. And if I talk for a long time, then maybe I’ll agree on something reasonable.
Once upon a time, only a few people read a book - here, there, in different places. Therefore, the books could be different. The world was spacious. But when the world became crowded with eyes, elbows, and mouths, when the population doubled, tripled, quadrupled, the content of films, radio programs, magazines, and books dropped to a certain standard. A kind of universal chewing gum. Beatty
People should not forget, he said, that they have a very small place on earth, that they live surrounded by nature, which can easily take back everything that it gave to man.
He who does not create must destroy. This is as old as time...
Spin the human mind in a mad whirlwind, faster, faster! - by the hands of publishers, entrepreneurs, radio broadcasters, so that the centrifugal force throws out all unnecessary, unnecessary, useless thoughts!... Beatty
People can't be trusted, that's the horror.
Once upon a time in ancient times there lived a stupid Phoenix bird. Every few hundred years she burned herself at the stake. She must have been a close relative of the man. But, having burned, she was reborn from the ashes every time. We humans are like this bird. However, we have an advantage over her. We know what a stupid thing we did. We know all the stupid things we have done over a thousand years or more. And since we know this and all this is written down and we can look back and see the path that we have traveled, then there is hope that someday we will stop building these stupid funeral pyres and throwing ourselves into the fire. Each new generation leaves us people who remember the mistakes of humanity. Granger
I'm seventeen years old and I'm crazy. My uncle says that one inevitably follows the other. He says: if they ask how old you are, answer that you are seventeen and that you are crazy. Clarissa McLellan
Books are such traitors...
We are just the covers of books, protecting them from damage and dust - nothing more.
It’s a special pleasure to see how fire devours things, how they turn black and change. And most of all he wants to do now what he so often amused himself with as a child - put a stick with a candy into the fire, while books, like doves, rustling their page-wings, die on the porch and on the lawn in front of the house; they take off in a fiery whirlwind, and the wind, black with soot, carries them away.
Don't try to judge books by their covers.
From nursery straight to college and then back to nursery. This is the intellectual standard that has prevailed for the last five centuries or more. Beatty
I hate the Roman named Status Quo... Open your eyes wider, live as greedily as if you will die in ten seconds. Try to see the world. He is more beautiful than any dream created in a factory and paid for with money. Don’t ask for guarantees, don’t seek peace - there is no such beast in the world. And if there is, then he is akin to a sloth monkey, which hangs on a tree with its head down all day and spends its entire life in hibernation. To hell!... Shake the tree harder, let this lazy bastard crack his ass on the ground! Granger's grandfather
And the dwarf, climbing on the giant’s shoulders, sees further than him.
He wore his happiness like a mask.
You know, being a dying person has its advantages. When you have nothing to lose, you are not afraid of risk. Montag
Leave you alone! Fine. But how can I leave myself alone? No, you can't leave us alone. We need to worry, at least occasionally.
If I talk for a long time, then maybe I’ll come to an agreement on something reasonable.
First of all, work, and after work, entertainment, and around as much as you like, at every step, enjoy! So why learn anything other than the ability to turn on switches, tighten nuts, and fit bolts? Beatty
If they give you lined paper, write across it. Juan Ramon Jimenez
Create something yourself that can save the world, and if you drown along the way, at least you will know that you swam to the shore. Faber
It seemed to him that he was split in two, split in half, and one half was hot as fire, and the other cold as ice, one was tender, the other was cruel, one was tremulous, the other was hard as stone. And each half of his split self tried to destroy the other.
Now you understand...why do books cause such hatred, why are they so feared? They show us the pores on the face of life. Those who seek only peace would like to see before them waxen faces, without pores and hair, without expression. Faber
Yes. We have enough free time. But do we have time to think?
It is difficult to say at what exact moment friendship is born. When you pour water drop by drop into a vessel, there is one last drop, from which it suddenly overflows, and the moisture overflows, and here, in a series of good deeds, one suddenly fills the heart. Montag
Everything has its time. A time to destroy and a time to build. A time to be silent and a time to speak. Montag
We have everything to be happy, but we are unhappy.
After all, books exist to remind us what fools and stubborn asses we are.
Good writers are closely in touch with life. Those who are mediocre only skim the surface. And the bad ones rape her and leave her torn to pieces to be eaten by flies. Faber
On the night he died, the world was depleted of ten million beautiful deeds.
Man does not tolerate anything that goes beyond the ordinary.
Nowadays, for some reason, everyone believes, everyone is firmly convinced that nothing can happen to him. Others die, but I live. Beatty
Human memory is like sensitive photographic film, and all we do all our lives is try to erase what is imprinted on it.
And if you hide your ignorance, you will not be beaten, and you will never grow wiser.
Topics of the issue: statements, sayings. aphorisms, phrases and quotes from the novel “Fahrenheit 451”.
What is Fahrenheit 451 about?
The novel describes the future of a totalitarian society in which Guy Montag lives. The main character is a fireman. But the fire department where the main character served is not an ordinary one. They did not extinguish the burning buildings, but set fire to houses with books. Montag didn't even think about why he was doing all this. The main revolution in his life was his meeting with a girl named Clarissa. Guy and Clarissa's generation are people who live only for TV series and, perhaps, sports. Clarissa was radically different from this society. The girl loved nature, which attracted the attention of the main character. Guy completely revised his views on the world, on his existence, on his entire life.
The main character already had a wife - Mildred. Guy began to notice, especially after meeting Clarissa, that he and his wife were living separate lives, separate from each other. They had no children.
The turning point in Guy's life was the following incident: a woman burned down in her own house because she did not want to part with her books. The main character began to ask “dangerous” questions: what was the activity of firefighters before? Guy took the incident seriously and even stopped going to work. The last straw was the death of Clarissa - she died under the wheels of a car.
Guy's boss decided to visit his employee. He told the main character that he should not stand out from society. Books make people different, not the same, as the government wishes. That's why they fight books, because books can awaken the mind. If people begin to get smarter and develop their minds, then society will begin to fight against the established model of government.
Books were kept in Guy's house. Montag saved them from fires. He suggested reading Mildred. Soon the fireman met Faber. It was a professor suspected of dissent.
Milred became an informer on her husband, and their house was burned down.
Later, residents of the city in which the novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place saw planes that, after bombing, wiped it off the face of the earth.
