Life Quotes by Douglas Adams

“Life,” said Marvin, “don’t talk to me about life.” He”

— Douglas Adams

Life is wasted on the living.

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Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

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Life! Don't talk to me about life!

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I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

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“One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.”

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Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

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

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He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

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There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

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A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

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Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

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If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is…

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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which…

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“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything…

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“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why…

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

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The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that…

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He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions…

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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they are…

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It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite…

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The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look…

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From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from…

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“And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had…

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All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister,…

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“There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life…

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“Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so…

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It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life…

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“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life…

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“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of…

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“For instance, in one corner of the Eastern Galactic Arm lies the large forest planet Oglaroon, the entire “intelligent” population of which…

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“The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life…

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“Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild,…

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“Mrs E. Kapelsen of Boston, Massachusetts was an elderly lady, indeed, she felt her life was nearly at an end. She had…

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“They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each…

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“Listen, you machine,” he said, “you claim you can synthesize any drink in existence, so why do you keep giving me the…

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The Answer to the Great Question Of...Life, the Universe and Everything...[is] Forty-two.

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Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

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In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

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

— Douglas Adams