Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams: Quotes about life
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“This was the evening of the last day of Gordon Way's life”
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Context: This was the evening of the last day of Gordon Way's life … The weather forecast hadn't mentioned that, of course, that wasn't the job of the weather forecast, but then his horoscope had been pretty misleading as well. It had mentioned an unusual amount of planetary activity in his sign and had urged him to differentiate between what he thought he wanted and what he actually needed, and suggested that he should tackle emotional or work problems with determination and complete honesty, but had inexplicably failed to mention that he would be dead before the day was out.
“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 4
Variant: You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
“The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Parrots, the Universe and Everything (2001)
Context: For us, there is no longer a fundamental mystery about Life. It is all the process of extraordinary eruptions of information, and it is information which gives us this fantastically rich, complex world in which we live; but at the same time that we've discovered that we are destroying it at a rate that has no precedent in history, unless you go back to the point when we are hit by an asteroid!
“Life is wasted on the living.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story