Get ready to be entertained by these Douglas Adams quotes.
Douglas Adams has a long list of works and accomplishments from the 49 years that he lived. He was an English author, essayist, humorist, screenwriter, satirist, and dramatist.

The story goes that he was lying in a field one day looking at the stars with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe next to him which made him decide to write a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This was just the start.
Douglas Adams had his hand in a number of works from his own hitchhiker’s series to Doctor Who and Monty Python. His humor and personality show throughout his work.
Douglas Adams quotes from The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
1. “The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams
2. “Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all-around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.” – Douglas Adams
3. “Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.” – Douglas Adams
4. “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.” – Douglas Adams
5. “I’ve had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.” – Douglas Adams
6. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams
7. “People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.” – Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams quotes from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
8. “To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.” – Douglas Adams
9. “Reality is frequently inaccurate.” – Douglas Adams
10. “He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.” – Douglas Adams
11. “Life is wasted on the living.” – Douglas Adams
12. “The secret of healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food.” – Douglas Adams
13. “I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.” – Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams quotes from The Salmon of Doubt
14. “I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don’t believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.” – Douglas Adams
15. “Beauty doesn’t have to be about anything. What’s a vase about? What’s a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart’s Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?” – Douglas Adams
16. “I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.” – Douglas Adams
17. “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
18. “There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.” – Douglas Adams
19. “He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.” – Douglas Adams
20. “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.” – Douglas Adams
21. “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” – Douglas Adams
22. “We notice things that don’t work. We don’t notice things that do. We notice computers, we don’t notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don’t notice books.” – Douglas Adams
23. “I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.” – Douglas Adams
Humorous Douglas Adams quotes
24. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” – Douglas Adams
25. “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” – Douglas Adams
26. “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” – Douglas Adams
27. “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” – Douglas Adams
28. “Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.” – Douglas Adams
29. “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer” – Douglas Adams
30. “A learning experience is one of those things that say, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.” – Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
31. “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” – Douglas Adams
32. “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” – Douglas Adams
33. “Did I do anything wrong today,” he said, “or has the world always been like this and I’ve been too wrapped up in myself to notice?” – Douglas Adams
34. “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams
35. “For instance, on the planet Earth, 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 intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.” – Douglas Adams
36. “If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.” – Douglas Adams
37. “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
38. “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” – Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams quotes from Mostly Harmless
39. “It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else’s point of view without the proper training.” – Douglas Adams
40. “A beach house isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.” – Douglas Adams
41. “Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don’t notice. Some we do.” – Douglas Adams
42. “Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.” – Douglas Adams
43. “Sometimes if you received an answer, the question might be taken away.” – Douglas Adams
44. “Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.” – Douglas Adams
45. “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” – Douglas Adams
46. “He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.” – Douglas Adams
More Douglas Adams quotes
47. “Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.” – Douglas Adams
48. “Don’t believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.” – Douglas Adams
49. “All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it’s pretty damn complicated in the first place.” – Douglas Adams
50. “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.” – Douglas Adams
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If you’ve never read or watched any of the works of Douglas Adams, you might want to check them out after reading through these quotes.
He had a love of writing, music, and creativity. He had a flair for science fiction but that wasn’t it. He even had his hand in computer games and similar projects.
For not even making it to the age of 50, Douglas Adams created many works and had some published after his untimely death. If you’re looking for something new to enjoy during your downtime, check out a list of his works and take your pick.
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