Douglas Adams Quotes

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Everything’s a story. You are a story. I am a story.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Don’t panic.

I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

I’d far rather be happy than right any day.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.

We don’t have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

The moment you stop and say ‘What do you want me to do?’ is the moment you start being told what to do.

The Guide says there is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is

You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

I love the way light travels. It’s sort of … well, I don’t know, sort of friendly.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

This must be Thursday,’ said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. ‘I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

I’d get up in the morning and disappear into a universe of my own making.

Time is a device invented so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

One of the reasons why people have so little pleasure in their lives is that they refuse to admit that they are the cause of their own unhappiness.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

Don’t ever let an electronic device know you are in a hurry.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

I’d far rather be happy than right any day.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55 when you know you’ve taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart where I’m standing?

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.