Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way? Philip K. Dick More Quotes by Philip K. Dick More Quotes From Philip K. Dick I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. I often have the feeling — and it does show up in my books — that this is all just a stage. Philip K. Dick wallsillybook What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader. Philip K. Dick statisticsreaderbelief The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them. Philip K. Dick cryregrettrying When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, Philip K. Dick crazysufferingbelieve Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane. Philip K. Dick fashioninsanetwo We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air. Philip K. Dick motherairsea Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang. Philip K. Dick gungivingideas Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything. Philip K. Dick graveslife-islife I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you. Philip K. Dick painheartchildren I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me? Philip K. Dick dustgoes-onmean Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present. Philip K. Dick lossanimalchildren What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all. Philip K. Dick scaredfacesfather I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong. Philip K. Dick classmovingthinking We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way. Philip K. Dick momentstryingway Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any. Philip K. Dick wickedlittlespast Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed. Philip K. Dick guiltresponsibilityworld What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great. Philip K. Dick unseendoemen I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then my means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lose a sense of worth. It doesn't matter whether you feel better because you have no worth. Philip K. Dick feel-bettersufferingmean In a one-party system there is always a landslide. Philip K. Dick landslidesparty I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test. Philip K. Dick testslove-yourooms
