“Next year’s going to be even bigger, days will be brighter, nights longer and darker, more people dying, more babies born, and me in the middle of it all.”

— Ray Bradbury, book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), pp. 235-236

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Jan. 20, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Next year’s going to be even bigger, days will be brighter, nights longer and darker, more people dying, more babies bo…" by Ray Bradbury?

Ray Bradbury photo

Ray Bradbury401

American writer 1920–2012

Related quotes

“The days will always be brighter because he existed.
The nights will always be darker because he's gone.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

“I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.”

Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer

Act II.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)

“For every dark night, there's a brighter day. ”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“The victories of Right
Are born of strife.
There were no Day were there no Night,
Nor, without dying, Life.”

Lewis Morris (poet) (1833–1907) Welsh poet in the English language

The Ode of Evil, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The last child is becoming more beloved to everyone and more people are willing, day and night, to embrace him with all their love.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Variant: For every dark night, there's a brighter day.

“Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

As quoted in Busted : Stone Cowboys, Narco-lords, and Washington's War on Drugs (2002) edited by Mike Gray

“Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”

William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008) American conservative author and commentator

Source: Misattributed, P. J. O'Rourke, as quoted in Busted : Stone Cowboys, Narco-lords, and Washington's War on Drugs (2002) edited by Mike Gray.

Related topics