--- title: "13 Doe Quotes By Philip K. Dick" description: "13 Doe quotes by Philip K. Dick. Plus more from Philip K. Dick and more Doe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/philip-k-dick-502_bird_the-bird-is-gone-and-in-what-meadow-does_1279479.jpg" --- > [The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/the-bird-is-gone-and-in-what-meadow-does-it-now-sing/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/philip-k-dick-502_bird_the-bird-is-gone-and-in-what-meadow-does_1279479.jpg) > [Activity does not necessarily mean life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/activity-does-not-necessarily-mean-life/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cb/philip-k-dick-502_activity_activity-does-not-necessarily-mean-life_2585121.jpg) > [Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/activity-does-not-necessarily-mean-life-quasars-are-active-and-a-monk/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/818/philip-k-dick-502_active_activity-does-not-necessarily-mean-life_2246449.jpg) > [Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/each-of-us-assumes-everyone-else-knows-what-he-is-doing-they-all-2/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e1/philip-k-dick-502_assuming_each-of-us-assumes-everyone-else-knows-w_1540069.jpg) > [What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/what-they-do-not-comprehend-is-man-s-helplessness-i-am-weak-small-of/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96d/philip-k-dick-502_consequence_what-they-do-not-comprehend-is-man-s-hel_622793.jpg) > [I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/i-think-that-like-in-my-writing-reality-is-always-a-soap-bubble-silly/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/philip-k-dick-502_book_i-think-that-like-in-my-writing-reality_530489.jpg) > [I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/i-want-to-write-about-people-i-love-and-put-them-into-a-fictional/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/philip-k-dick-502_doe_i-want-to-write-about-people-i-love-and_53160.jpg) > [“The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/the-distinction-between-sanity-and-insanity-is-narrower-than-the/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/philip-k-dick-502_deer_the-distinction-between-sanity-and-insan_1382086.jpg) > [I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/i-became-educated-to-the-fact-that-the-greatest-pain-does-not-come/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/632/philip-k-dick-502_bores_i-became-educated-to-the-fact-that-the-g_1349603.jpg) > [I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/i-want-to-write-about-people-i-love-and-put-them-into-a-fictional-2/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fa/philip-k-dick-502_doe_i-want-to-write-about-people-i-love-and_250732.jpg) > [Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/why-does-a-man-cry-he-wondered-not-like-a-woman-not-for-that-not-for/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d8/philip-k-dick-502_alive_why-does-a-man-cry-he-wondered-not-like_53679.jpg) > [The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/the-psychotic-does-not-merely-think-he-sees-four-blue-bivalves-with/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/157/philip-k-dick-502_blue_the-psychotic-does-not-merely-think-he-s_663144.jpg) > [“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/a-human-being-without-the-proper-empathy-or-feeling-is-the-same-as-an/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbf/philip-k-dick-502_acting_a-human-being-without-the-proper-empathy_2029242.jpg) ## Other authors on Doe ## More by Philip K. Dick > [So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/so-we-and-our-elaborately-evolving-computers-may-meet-each-other/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/even-if-all-life-on-our-planet-is-destroyed-there-must-be-other-life/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/that-is-not-how-you-do-it-you-do-not-solve-one-problem-with-another/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/for-each-person-there-is-a-sentence-a-series-of-words-which-has-the/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/i-want-to-write-about-people-i-love-and-put-them-into-a-fictional/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/why-does-a-man-cry-he-wondered-not-like-a-woman-not-for-that-not-for/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/the-day-came-the-wrath-descended-sin-guilt-and-retribution-the-manic/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [The church of my choice is the free, open world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/the-church-of-my-choice-is-the-free-open-world/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/i-see-rick-said-he-felt-numb-completely-throughout-his-entire-body/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/what-is-identity-he-asked-himself-where-does-the-act-end-nobody-knows/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/you-re-killing-yourself-with-cynicism-your-idols-got-taken-away-from/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/what-scared-me-the-most-was-when-my-father-would-put-on-the-gasmask/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [“A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/a-man-is-an-angel-that-has-become-deranged-joe-fernwright-thought/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [“When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/when-do-i-see-a-photograph-when-a-reflection/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) > [My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/my-major-preoccupation-is-the-question-what-is-reality/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doe/philip-k-dick/#itemlist", "name": "13 Doe Quotes By Philip K. 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