50 Delightfully Bizarre Douglas Adams Quotes That Will Make You Question The Human Condition

50 quotes

Because life has always been a little bit odd by nature. 

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

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Reality, Dream, Illusion

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

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: humor, Flying, Success, Failure

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

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Experience, Living

“Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelli…”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Happiness, Human Nature, Mankind

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Presidency, President, Politics

“You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.’”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Learning, Learning Experience, Experience

“We will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: normalcy

“We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Earth, humans, Mankind

“I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Questioning

“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Perception, Self-Perception, Reality

“The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

“It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, humanity, Mankind

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

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“'The light works,' he said, indicating the window, 'the gravity works,' he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. 'Anything else we have to take our chances with.’”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

“How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

“And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

“You’re paid a lot and you’re not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don’t want or need—for which you need more money.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Money, Society

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

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Life, Intentions, Off-Track

“Don't Panic.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Panic, Motto