Douglas Adams Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

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  Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings, Sitting

  "The Meaning of Liff". Book by Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, 1983.

• There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

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  Funny, Humorous, Interesting

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

• I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

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  Depression, Thinking, Feelings

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

• All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.

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  Men, Perfectly Normal, Feelings

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

• For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

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  Long, Feelings, Nagging

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

• When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

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  Past, Car, Feelings

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

• From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever encountered, for they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life, and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning, and astonished by all the green stuff in the fields.

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  Morning, Journey, Sheep

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

• For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night.

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  Night, Two, Feel Good

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.485, Pan Macmillan

• We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.

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  Mistake, Animal, Self

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams, 1990.

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