Quotes from Philip K. Dick

Nós não servimos as pessoas; o universo serve. O universo toma certas decisões, e com base nessas decisões algumas pessoas vivem e outras morrem. É uma lei dura. Mas toda criatura obedece a ela por necessidade.

Always this barrier, this impossibility of getting through. This time he did not waste his time trying; he simply went on stroking her, thinking, It'll be on my conscience, whatever happens to her. And she knows it, too. So she's absolved of the burden of responsibility, and that, for her, is the worst thing possible. Too bad, he thought, I wasn't able to make love to her.

Thank you, Tim Leary, Fat thought. You and your promotion of the joy of expanded consciousness through dope.

O universo te dá corda, deixa você se debater à vontade, e depois puxa para você se enforcar.

In other words, an entire new world is pointed to, by this. The name for it is neither art, for it has no form, nor religion. What is it? I have pondered this pin unceasingly, yet cannot fathom it. We evidently lack the work for an object like this. So you are right, Robert. It is authentically a new thing on the face of the world

Quando você é louco, aprende a ficar calado.

I think they should be the rulers,' Juliana said, pausing. 'They always were the best. The British.

One of God's greatest mercies is that he keeps us perpetually occluded.

A distinção entre sanidade e insanidade é mais estreita que o fio de uma navalha, mais afiada que os dentes de um perdigueiro, mais ágil que uma gazela. Ela é mais difícil vislumbrar do que o mais sutil fantasma. Talvez ela nem sequer exista; talvez seja mesmo um fantasma.

Realidade é aquela coisa que não desaparece quando você deixa de acreditar nela.

It was like a plague. No one could discern how much was due to drugs. This time in America—1960 to 1970—and this place, the Bay Area of Northern California, was totally fucked. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's the truth. Fancy terms and ornate theories cannot cover this fact up. The authorities became as psychotic as those they hunted.

Nós dois caímos na gargalhada. Quando você está quase louco de dor, você ri do que puder.

Todo mundo sabe disso, todo mundo que já olhou sem poder fazer nada para uma pessoa doente ou moribunda, ou um animal doente ou moribundo, sentiu uma pena terrível, uma pena avassaladora, e percebeu que essa pena, por maior que pudesse ser, é totalmente inútil.

Aquilo que não faz sentido faz o maior sentido de todos.

The most horrid sound in the world, that of the once-was: alive in the past, perishing in the present, a corpse made of dust in the future.

women always put on too much makeup when someone dies.

É incrível que, quando mais alguém começa a botar pra fora as besteiras em que você próprio acredita, você consegue perceber imediatamente como elas não fazem o menor sentido.

I need you, he said. Otherwise I'm going to die, he said to himself.

Only death can get us out of this and maybe not even death. Maybe it's too late; we'll carry this deterioration with us to the next life.

One of these days, people like me will rise up and overthrow you, and the end of tyranny by the homeostatic machine will have arrived. The day of human values and compassion and simple warmth will return, and when that happens someone like myself who has gone through an ordeal and who genuinely needs hot coffee to pick him up and keep him functioning when he has to function will get the hot coffee whether he happens to have a poscred readily available or not.

What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull? Better they should enjoy their temporary lives, while they still had them to enjoy.

What you teach is the word of man. Man is holy, and the true god, the living god, is man himself. You will have no gods but yourselves; the days in which you believed in other gods end now, they end forever.

The fat, middle-aged landlady in her Venusian whistle-cricket hide dress and wubfur slippers repelled him; already this had become a grim experience.

Oh no, she said, still smiling; her eyes poured over with light, that of compassion. She understood how he felt, that this was not an impulse only. But the answer was still no, and, he knew, it would always be;