💬 Quotes

"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It has been built on the fragmented remains of inevitably destroyed worlds, at the last instant of the last day of the Universe."

"The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them."

"Zaphod Beeblebrox: 'I’m a very important person. I’m the President of the Imperial Galactic Government. Don’t you know who I am?' Zarniwoop: 'I know exactly who you are, Zaphod. You’re a terrified little man who’s afraid to be alone with his own thoughts.'"

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

"We are a collection of the stories we tell ourselves, and the stories others tell about us, and the gap between the two is where the ghosts live."

"Grief is not a process to be completed; it is a geography to be lived in."

"If you look closely enough at anyone, you will find a seam where they have stitched themselves back together after breaking."

"Beauty is a weapon, yes, but it is also a cage. I have spent my life deciding whether to sharpen the bars or try to pick the lock."

"Sometimes the truth is a jagged piece of glass that you have to swallow if you ever want to be whole again."

"To be seen is to be vulnerable, but to remain hidden is to be forgotten. I would rather be broken and known than pristine and invisible."

"There is something in the very season of the year that gives a charm to the festivity of Christmas. By an insensible chime, we connect together thoughts of home, kindred, and old companions."

"If others can live happily in this way, why cannot I? Or rather, why cannot we all?"

"So it was that a world was born, which has come to be called Nowhere, a world where fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell."

"Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."

"It is clear to me that the time must come when the miserable shored-upobsolescence of our present system will give way to a state of things where we shall live easily, calmly, and intelligently."

"Instead of machinery being used for finding out means for creating fresh work, hitherto unthought of, it is used for the shortening of labour-time."

"Go back and be the man for whom the future is to be built; look at these gardens and this happy people, and carry back their message to the world of toil."

"Think of the sweep of it! It is grand—it is awful. To think that humanity, with all its sins and strivings, should be swept out of the path of evolution so easily."

"We are standing upon the threshold of the unknown, and for a flash we may see a little clearer than our fellows."