Philip K. Dick Quotes

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

All things are subject to decay and change.

Nothing lasts-not even pain.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Today will die tomorrow.

Today is not forever.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

Life is like this: things come and go.

Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.