The Skull Quotes

“What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak, if he could see it, the grinning, aged skull? What would there be for him to say, to tell the people? What message could he bring?

What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull?”
― Philip K. Dick, The Skull

“I have an odd paradox for you," he said. "Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!”
― Philip K. Dick, The Skull

“You're an unusual person," she said.

"Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so—so prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become—broadened in his outlook?”
― Philip K. Dick, The Skull

“What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull? Better they should enjoy their temporary lives, while they still had them to enjoy.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Skull

“He stopped to look around. Everything was silent.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Skull