Philip K. Dick Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Children, Heart

• When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Childish Things

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow.

  Philip K. Dick

  Running, Children, Play

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Loss, Animal

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Lying, Two

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

• I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Real, Tourists

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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