Terry Pratchett Quotes

Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

Never f*!k with the ineffable.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!

It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.

No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum.

I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.