Philip K. Dick Quotes

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Wishful thinking is no substitute for reality.

We don’t like to face unpleasant reality. We want our leaders to tell us what we want to hear …. You cannot manipulate reality. Reality will real its ugly head

… the pain we have suffered would have been for naught—and we would only be putting off until some later time an even more painful day of reckoning.

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

'The Invitation' is a meditation on grief and loss carried within a suspense drama. At its core, it's about a dinner party gone horribly wrong and about the consequences of denying our pain.

Great repressions create dualities.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.