Philip K. Dick Quotes

If a thing moves, it lives.

Motion is the sign of life.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

... life, by definition, is never still.

Creating means living.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

Living is not breathing but doing.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Life for me is about movement.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

We are not put into the world to sit still and know, we are put in it to act.

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.