Quote by Philip K. Dick

“There was a sense of being in the midst of something having prodigious weight and volume but no form, of being utterly unable to…

— Thomas Gallagher

“Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of earth abd his…

— milan kundera

“Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition… Yet change is life’s only…

— Laurie Beth Jones

“The old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.”

— Aldous Huxley

“A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it, but he soon feels the weight of any other object. There is…

— Beryl Bainbridge

“No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his ability to…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“In this condition one enriches everything out of one's own abundance: what one sees, what one desires, one sees swollen, pressing, strong, over laden…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a…

— Albert Einstein

“I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A physical object could only be in one place at one time. Einstein proved that. Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.”

— Haruki Murakami

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Living in a world where constantly one turned and touched incomprehension—they did not comprehend, he did not comprehend—gave the air the lift of uncertainty…

— Elizabeth Strout