Philip K. Dick Quotes - Page 9

Quotes about:

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Father, Faces, Scared

  Philip K. Dick (1991). “The collected stories: The minority report”

  4 Copy quote

• You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

  Philip K. Dick

  Book, Mean, Space

  Philip K. Dick (2017). “Blade Runner”, p.112, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

• I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

  Philip K. Dick

  Twelve, Magazines, Firsts

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Pantheon

  4 Copy quote

• I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Thinking, Class

  4 Copy quote

• The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

  Philip K. Dick

  Silence, Greed, World

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.20, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Artist, Talent, Bohemian

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

• 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 in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Love, Girl, Real

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s”

  8 Copy quote

• It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sunset, Winning, Easy

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  22 Copy quote

• Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

  Philip K. Dick

  Giving, Stones, Monsters

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

• I have seen myself backward.

  Philip K. Dick

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s”

  4 Copy quote

• Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hate, Ideas, Two

  "The Dark Haired Girl". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1989.

  7 Copy quote

• Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, War, Ideas

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

• Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

  Philip K. Dick

  Responsibility, Guilt, World

  4 Copy quote

• 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 world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wise, Writing, Heart

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

• Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Loss, Animal

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

• But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

  Philip K. Dick

  Light, Matter, Stills

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

• The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can communicate with you at all. It's a credit to my ego-strength that I'm not at this point totally autistic.

  Philip K. Dick

  Grief, Ego, Credit

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Simulacra”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

• I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E.
  van Vogt.

  Philip K. Dick

  Reading, Writing, Doubt

  Philip K. Dick (2015). “Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.22, Melville House

  4 Copy quote

• Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hair, Guy, Bugs

  Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K Dick”, p.946, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

• Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Art, Life Is Short, White

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

• Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fashion, Two, Insane

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

• I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Children, Heart

  14 Copy quote

• Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

  Philip K. Dick

  Junkie

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

• I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. I often have the feeling — and it does show up in my books — that this is all just a stage.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wall, Silly, Book

  Science Fiction Review, August 1976.

  4 Copy quote

• We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.

  Philip K. Dick

  Trying, Way, Moments

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

Page 9 of 10

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin