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“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”
― Douglas Adams

“42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.”
― Douglas Adams

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“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.”
― Douglas Adams

“We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”
― Douglas Adams

“Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”
― Douglas Adams

“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.”
― Douglas Adams

“And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“I’d rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can’t.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its remaining energies may actually be directed toward dying.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

“Suffering brings experience.”
― Aeschylus

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
― Aesop

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
― Aesop

“If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.”
― Aesop

“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most”
― aesop

“It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.”
― Aesop

“Please all, and you will please none.”
― Aesop

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction”
― aesop

“Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.”
― Aesop, The Aesop for Children