"I ache, therefore I am."
"Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust or just fall apart where I'm standing?"
"Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life."
"Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin."And what happened?" pressed Ford."It committed suicide."
Sobre ter sido abandonado num parque de estacionamento durante 500 milhões de anos: "The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into sort of a decline"
"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without trying to invent any more of it"
Arthur: "Marvin, any ideas?"Marvin: "I have a million ideas. They all point to certain death."
Marvin: "I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."Zem: "Er, five."Marvin: "Wrong. You see?"
"Why stop now just when I'm hating it?"
"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed"