Philip K. Dick Quotes

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

I've never had my heart broken.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.