Douglas Adams Quotes

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

The Universe is very, very big.

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.

The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

You know, it's a long world.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.