I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep desire for escape and peace from the chaos of life.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick articulates a profound feeling of exhaustion and a yearning for solitude, reflecting the overwhelming pressures and stresses that life can impose. The desire to find a quiet, dark place suggests a craving for rest and a break from the incessant demands of the external world, ultimately hinting at a wish for permanence in that escape as a form of relief from a burdensome existence.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about mental health awareness to emphasize the importance of rest.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life
The point is to live everything.
Because in a split second, it's gone.
What right had they to make me suffer like that?
It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
If time were a bolt of cloth,β said Om, βI would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.
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