Quotes About Existence

The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do his hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something it doesn't mean to say it's not there, it's only what your senses bring to your attention.

The man was awake but not glad to be.

Time is an illusion. Lunch-time doubly so.

Acontecimientos importantes de la Historia de la Galaxia, II: Desde los orígenes de esta Galaxia, grandes civilizaciones han surgido y desaparecido y muerto tan a menudo que resulta profundamente tentador pensar que la vida en ella debe ser a) algo así como un mareo, un vértigo en el espacio, en el tiempo, en la historia o cosa parecida, y b) estúpida.

Bir ÅŸeyi görmeniz onun orada olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmediÄŸi gibi, bir ÅŸeyi görmemeniz onun orada olmad??? anlam?na gelmez. Just like seeing something doesn't mean it's there, not seeing something doesn't mean it isn't there. Wie bedeutet nicht etwas zu schauen, dass es da ist; etwas zu nicht schauen bedeutet nicht, dass es nicht da ist.

That isn't to say that if you get involved in a paradox a few things won't strike you as being very odd, but if you've got through life without that already happening to you, then I don't know which Universe you've been living in, but it isn't this one.

Who am I? What is my purpose in life? Does it really, cosmically speaking, matter if I don't get up and go to work?

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that 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 ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything is: 42

the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

Resumo dos últimos capítulos: No início, o Universo foi criado. Isso irritou profundamente muitas pessoas e, no geral, foi encarado como uma péssima ideia.

Life',said Marvin,'don't talk to me about life

Life!" urged Fook. "The Universe!" said Lunkwill. "Everything!" they said in chorus.

he had proved conclusively that 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.

Very few things actually get manufactured these days, because in an infinitely large Universe such as, for instance, the one in which we live, most things one could possibly imagine and a lot of things one would rather not, grow somewhere.

His name was Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. He was a man with a purpose. Not a very good purpose, as he would have been the first to admit, but it was at least a purpose and it did keep him on the move.

Es gibt eine Theorie, die besagt, wenn jemals irgendwer genau herausfindet, wozu das Universum da ist und warum es da ist, dann verschwindet es und wird durch etwas noch Bizarreres und Unbegreiflicheres ersetzt. Es gibt eine andere Theorie nach der das schon passiert ist.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Das Leben, sagte Marvin schwermütig, hasse oder ignoriere es, lieben kannst du's nicht.

Tutto quel che, in qualsiasi forma, vedi, senti o provi è specifico di te. Tu crei un universo percependolo, sicché tutto quanto percepisci dell'universo è specifico di te

My name?' said the old man, and the same distant sadness came into his face again. He paused. 'My name,' he said, '. . . is Slartibartfast.' Arthur practically choked. 'I beg your pardon?' he spluttered. 'Slartibartfast,' repeated the old man quietly. 'Slartibartfast?' The old man looked at him gravely. 'I said it wasn't important,' he said.

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.' 'But,' says Man, 'The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.