Mind Quotes by Douglas Adams

“He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.”

— Douglas Adams

Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

— Douglas Adams

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

— Douglas Adams

“It was the product of a mind that was not merely twisted, but actually sprained.”

— Douglas Adams

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

— Douglas Adams

“...was friend the word? He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person.”

— Douglas Adams

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come…

— Douglas Adams

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the…

— Douglas Adams

“Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion.”

— Douglas Adams

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate…

— Douglas Adams

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space…

— Douglas Adams

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the…

— Douglas Adams

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that…

— Douglas Adams

“As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself…

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He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up…

— Douglas Adams

What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with…

— Douglas Adams

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that'…

— Douglas Adams

I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the…

— Douglas Adams

“Patterns that Arthur knew, rough blobby shapes that were as familiar to him as the shapes of words, part of the furniture…

— Douglas Adams

No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live…

— Douglas Adams

Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this?…

— Douglas Adams

“He lay, panting heavily in the wet air, and tried feeling bits of himself to see where he might be hurt. Wherever…

— Douglas Adams

“His mouth started to speak, but his brain decided it hadn't got anything to say yet and shut it again. His brain…

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“Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain…

— Douglas Adams

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

— Douglas Adams

“Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.”

— Douglas Adams

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

— Douglas Adams

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

— Douglas Adams

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's…

— Douglas Adams

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are…

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Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with…

— Douglas Adams

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that…

— Douglas Adams

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not…

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Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought,"…

— Douglas Adams

You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and…

— Douglas Adams

Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had…

— Douglas Adams