“He spent several days deciding on the artifacts. Much longer than he had spent deciding to kill himself, and approximately the same… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It is—their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what they do to others, the destruction they… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Only death can get us out of this and maybe not even death. Maybe it’s too late; we’ll carry this deterioration with… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“If I die,' she murmured, 'maybe I'll be born again when the Rosen Association stamps out its next unit of my subtype.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Let me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this was… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“We peep out, but what do we see, really? Mirror reflections of our own selves, our bloodless, feeble countenances, devoted to nothing… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image