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Douglas Adams quotes about life
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
— Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
This must be Thursday, ‘ said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. ‘I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Life… is like a grapefruit. Well, it’s sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It’s got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.
— Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Exactly!” said Deep Thought. “So once you do know what the question actually is, you’ll know what the answer means.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. “I will go mad!” he annouced.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn. The first letter was a ‘w, ‘ the second an ‘e.’ Then there was a gap. An ‘a’ followed, then a ‘p, ‘ an ‘o, ‘ and an ‘l.’Marvin paused for a rest.After a few moments they resumed and let him see the ‘o, ‘ the ‘g, ‘ the ‘i, ‘ the ‘z, ‘ and the ‘e.’The next two words were ‘for’ and ‘the.’ The last one was a long one, and Marvin needed another rest before the could tackle it.It started with ‘i, ‘ then ‘n, ‘ then ‘c.’ Next came an ‘o’ and an ‘n, ‘ followed by a ‘v, ‘ an ‘e, ‘ another ‘n, ‘ and an ‘i.’After a final pause, Marvin gathered his strength for the last stretch.He read the ‘e, ‘ the ‘n, ‘ the ‘c, ‘ and at last the final ‘e, ‘ and staggered back into their arms.’I think, ‘ he murmured at last from deep within his corroding, rattling thorax, ‘I feel good about it.’The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.
— Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn’t lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
So the hours are pretty good then?’ he resumed.The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.Yeah, ‘ he said, ‘but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Mr. Beeblebrox, sir, ‘ said the insect in awed wonder, ‘you’re so weird you should be in movies.;’Yeah, ‘ said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, ‘and you, baby, should be in real life.’ The insect paused for a moment
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
He hadn’t realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was “yes”.
— Douglas Adams
Why should I want to make anything up? Life’s bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.
— Douglas Adams
We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it’s prepared to put up with living.
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
It’s the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you’ll see that I’ve underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They’re all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I’ve taken, then maybe you won’t finish up at the end of your life” –she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should–“in a smelly old cave like this!
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.
— Douglas Adams
The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.
— Douglas Adams
The history of every major galactic civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterised by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third but the question Where shall we have lunch?
— Douglas Adams
She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. You get one of those trolleys which simply will not go in the direction you push it and end up just having to buy completely different stuff. What do you do with it? What do you do with the recipe? She didn’t know.
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
It is a West zone planet which by an inexplicable and somewhat suspicious freak of topography consists almost entirely of subtropical coastline. By an equally suspicious freak of temporal relastatics, it is nearly always Saturday afternoon just before the beach bars close. No adequate explanation for this has been forthcoming from the dominant life forms on Ursa Minor Beta, who spend most of their time attempting to achieve spiritual enlightenment by running round swimming pools, and inviting Investigation Officials from the Galactic Geo-Temporal Control Board to ‘have a nice diurnal anomaly.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl. “Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?” “I checked it very thoroughly, ” said the computer, “and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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