Douglas Adams Quotes

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

After September 11th, every day seems like September 12th.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.

I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

Every single day I wake up in the morning, and I wonder if this is some kind of amazing dream that's gonna end all of a sudden. And, you know, I'm gonna wake up and be somewhere else.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.