Life Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

— Terry Pratchett

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.

— Terry Pratchett

And what would humans be without love?" RARE, said Death.

— Terry Pratchett

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

— Terry Pratchett

“And at the end of time, living is about fightin’ against everything.”

— Terry Pratchett

Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.

— Terry Pratchett

“What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together”

— Terry Pratchett

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

— Terry Pratchett

“It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying…

— Terry Pratchett

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales,…

— Terry Pratchett

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

— Terry Pratchett

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

— Terry Pratchett

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

— Terry Pratchett

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is…

— Terry Pratchett

“It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two…

— Terry Pratchett

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could…

— Terry Pratchett

Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the…

— Terry Pratchett

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy…

— Terry Pratchett

“The demon coughed nervously. Demons do not breathe; however, every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time…

— Terry Pratchett

“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow…

— Terry Pratchett

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go…

— Terry Pratchett

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the…

— Terry Pratchett

I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to…

— Terry Pratchett

“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Tiffany jumped when she saw a balloon sail up above the trees, catch the wind, and swoop away, but it turned out…

— Terry Pratchett

“But she’s going to have a lot of problems." THAT’S WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT. SO I’M TOLD. I WOULDN’T KNOW, OF…

— Terry Pratchett

I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to…

— Terry Pratchett

“You didn't have to know Pilu for long to see that he floated through life like a coconut on the ocean. He…

— Terry Pratchett

“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward? How could they live with…

— Terry Pratchett

“Old terror crouched in the shadows. It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had…

— Terry Pratchett

“You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few…

— Terry Pratchett

“Tak did not expect the stone to have life, but when it did, he smiled upon it, saying "All Things Strive". Time…

— Terry Pratchett

“Nor had he, as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe…

— Terry Pratchett

“The first words that are read by seekers of enlightenment in the secret, gong-banging, yeti-haunted valleys near the hub of the world,…

— Terry Pratchett

“He'd never asked for an exciting life. What he really liked, what he sought on every occasion, was boredom. The trouble was…

— Terry Pratchett

“Vimes died. The sun dropped out of the sky, giant lizards took over the world, and the stars exploded and went out…

— Terry Pratchett

“Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered…

— Terry Pratchett

“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass…

— Terry Pratchett

“It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around.…

— Terry Pratchett

When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!

— Terry Pratchett