Douglas Adams Quotes

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

We live in a... chaotic world.

Life's messy.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

The order I found was the order of disorder

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.