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Life Quotes by Philip K. Dick
- Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
- Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life…
- The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere…
- It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
- The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are…
- You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your…
- I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.
- If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
- There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
- I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the…
- Everything in life is just for a while.
- There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is…
- The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life.…
- She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.
- But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her,…
- In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We…
- Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.
- But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
- We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life…
- He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.
- The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my…
- Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I…
- Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always,…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle