‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ is a science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams.
The first book in the series, a comic science fiction novel, was published in 1979.
Here are some selected quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novel.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Quotes by Douglas Adams
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“I don’t want to die now!” he yelled. “I’ve still got a headache! I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it!” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
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Quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“How many roads must a man walk down?” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“This must be Thursday,’ said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. ‘I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“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 (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“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 (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
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“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“My capacity for happiness,” he added, “you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“All through my life I’ve had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was.” “No,” said the old man, “that’s just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
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“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader’s Digest. They’ve got a page for people like you.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Ford!” he said, “there’s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“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 (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Don’t blame you,” said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
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“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Exactly!” said Deep Thought. “So once you do know what the question actually is, you’ll know what the answer means.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“My capacity for happiness,” he added, “you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Ford… you’re turning into a penguin. Stop it.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“We’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Don’t Panic.” ~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“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 (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
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