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Quotes About Existence

Do you think someday somebody will make a simulacrum of you and me? And we'll have to come back to life?
~ Philip K. Dick
Und wenn Sie einmal gewesen sind, werden Sie für immer existieren.
~ Philip K. Dick
The past is latent, is submerged, but still there, capable of rising to the surface once the later imprinting unfortunately - and against ordinary experience - vanished. The man contains - not the boy - but earlier men, he thought. History began a long time ago.
~ Philip K. Dick
I am made out of water. You wouldn't know it, because I have it bound in. My friends are made out of water, too. All of them. The problem for us is that not only do we have to walk around without being absorbed by the ground but we also have to earn our livings. Actually, there's even a greater problem. We don't feel at home anywhere we go. Why is that?
~ Philip K. Dick
But to grieve; it's to die and be alive at the same time. The most absolute, overpowering experience you can feel, therefore. Sometimes I swear we weren't constructed to go through such a thing; it's too much - your body damn near self-destructs with all that heaving and surging.
~ Philip K. Dick
Siempre he creído que al menos la mitad de los personajes famosos de la historia no han existido.
~ Philip K. Dick
Todas las vidas son una; <>, como dijo Shakespeare una vez
~ Philip K. Dick
sueñan los andorides? , se pregunto Rick. Era evidente: por eso de vez en cuando mataban a sus amos y venían a la Tierra. A vivifr una vida mejor, sin servidumbre
~ Philip K. Dick
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an indeterminable ennui.
~ Philip K. Dick
Loitering on Earth
~ Philip K. Dick
I am. I shall always be.
~ Philip K. Dick
It must be a manifestation of dying, he said to himself.
~ Philip K. Dick
Ist die traurigste Realität nicht immer noch besser als die Illusion?
~ Philip K. Dick
Motion that is circular is the deadest form of the universe." Another voice said, "Time." He knew the answer to that. Time is round.
~ Philip K. Dick
Uma realidade de sofrimento não é melhor que a mais interessante das ilusões?
~ Philip K. Dick
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. - Roy Batty of Blade Runner
~ Philip K. Dick
I'm not in the novel, I am the novel
~ Philip K. Dick
Thinking this he wondered if Mozart had had any intuition that the future did not exist, that he had already used up his little time.
~ Philip K. Dick
He saw only an empty white expanse, a focused glare, as if there were now no 3-D slide in the projector at all. The light, he thought, that underlies the play of phenomena which we call reality.
~ Philip K. Dick
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain - Roy Batty of Blade Runner
~ Philip K. Dick
Place there is none; we go backward and forward, and there is no place. —St. Augustine
~ Philip K. Dick
Only in a perfect flight from nothingness is Being to be found in all its purity. —St. Bonaventura
~ Philip K. Dick
I am not free. I never was, but now I know it; and that makes it different.
~ Philip K. Dick
Time ceased as the eyes gazed and the universe jelled along with him, at least for him, froze over with him and his understanding, as its inertness became complete. There was nothing he did not know; there was nothing left to happen.
~ Philip K. Dick