Douglas Adams Quotes

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

You are.

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.

Love is simply where it is.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

We do not become. We simply are.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

Being, not doing, is my first joy.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.

You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.