Philip K. Dick Quotes

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it ...

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself ...

Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if ...

What about -- not sex -- but love?''Love is another name for sex.''Like love of country,' Rick said....

An android,” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications w...

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be re...

Maybe I shouldn’t have told you––about it being electrical.” She put her hand out, touched his arm; ...

You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there ha...

If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The ...

No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apart...

I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest an...

Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand now how you suffer when you’re depresse...

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be...

That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. St...

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Consciousness of unconsciousness

Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's ...

To live is to be haunted.

Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that...

Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel gri...

No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of ever...

A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had be...

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways canno...

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathe...

I am life,’ the girl said.‘What?’ he said, startled.‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? ...

I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said ...

The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality,...

The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but al...

We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could ...

Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Anot...

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis ...

What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characte...

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.Why?It makes me paranoid.

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is j...

#36:...Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the...

Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism...

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the p...

I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a sca...

The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -...

That's the existential problem," Fat said, "based on the concept that We are what we do, rather than...

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters," Dr. Stone...

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane...

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold somethin...

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But somethin...

A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Ad...

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willin...

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time it uses up the better part of your life...

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right,...

There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.

What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voi...

Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he...

I'm sorry," Leon said. "I can see you loved your two friends and you miss them, and maybe they're fl...

When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.

It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night.”“Wh...

It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's th...

You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you.""I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. An...

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two)...

Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out e...

Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is frei...

But, he thought, what does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, see it, b...

I am a mask, concealing the real.

Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood c...

I'm sorry, she thought. But she said nothing. I can't save you or anybody else from being dark. She ...

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.

And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and...

They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writin...

Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it i...

Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shac...

You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can ...

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be re...

Mankind needs more empathy.

Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree cou...

Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with ...

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all ma...

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence ...

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart fro...

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for w...

There is evil! It's actual, like cement.I can't believe it. I can't stand it.Evil is not a view ... ...

I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives an...

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Comp...

A person’s authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as ...

We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.

What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak...

You're an unusual person," she said."Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He...

Are―you dying?" she asked."Just can't breathe. This air.""Poor, poor―good lord. I've forgotten your ...

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ...