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Life Quotes by Philip K. Dick

58 Life quotes by Philip K. Dick

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Philip K. Dick imagines life beyond Earth and wonders if we live under a spell that shapes what we see. He writes about love that lingers in the heart even after loss, and about death as a possible escape that may never come. His quotes blend sci‑fi curiosity with deep emotional reflection.

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Activity does not necessarily mean life.

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My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

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Everything in life is just for a while.

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“The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.”

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If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

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There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

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

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“Only death can get us out of this and maybe not even death. Maybe it’s too late; we’ll carry this deterioration with…

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“To save one life, Mr Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that”

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“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”

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He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

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But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

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I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.

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I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in…

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“And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of…

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I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.…

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Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear…

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“the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I…

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Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed…

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And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single…

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

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The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the…

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

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Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is…

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“It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of…

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There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen…

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Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and…

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“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either…

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Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the…

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“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.…

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“After he saw God [Tony Amsterdam] felt really good, for around a year. And then he felt really bad. Worse than he…

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“It is—their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what they do to others, the destruction they…

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“Metal is from the earth, he thought as he scrutinized. From below: from that realm which is the lowest, the most dense.…

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“It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in…

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The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.

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She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

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I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much…

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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

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Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave.…

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Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

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So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot…

Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that…

“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.”

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of…

The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -…

The church of my choice is the free, open world.

“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.”

“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.”

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…

What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being…

“A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and…

“When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?”

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'