Quotes About Existence

People ought to be one of two things, young or old. No ; what's the good of fooling? People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

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.

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

In an infinite Universe anything can happen.

Who is this god person anyway?

In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

What do you get if you multiply six by nine? Six by nine. Forty two. That's it. That's all there is. I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.

Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.

We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from I think therefore I am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.

Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.