A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Answer to the Great Question Of...Life, the Universe and Everything...[is] Forty-two. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“They believe in “peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms”.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For instance, in one corner of the Eastern Galactic Arm lies the large forest planet Oglaroon, the entire “intelligent” population of which… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Mrs E. Kapelsen of Boston, Massachusetts was an elderly lady, indeed, she felt her life was nearly at an end. She had… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered. — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share