--- title: "8 Backwards Quotes By Terry Pratchett" description: "8 Backwards quotes by Terry Pratchett. Plus more from Terry Pratchett and more Backwards sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/terry-pratchett-19_awful_christ-managed-to-boil-down-an-awful-lot_262968.jpg" --- > [Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/christ-managed-to-boil-down-an-awful-lot-of-commandments-to-a-few/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/terry-pratchett-19_awful_christ-managed-to-boil-down-an-awful-lot_262968.jpg) > [I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/i-can-t-stand-any-music-that-requires-its-singers-to-be-so-dumb-they/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b26/terry-pratchett-19_backwards_i-can-t-stand-any-music-that-requires-it_446375.jpg) > [Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/most-horses-don-t-walk-backwards-voluntarily-because-what-they-can-t/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/terry-pratchett-19_backwards_most-horses-don-t-walk-backwards-volunta_487108.jpg) > [It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/it-was-a-backwards-memory-of-an-event-in-his-future-so-terrifying/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d4/terry-pratchett-19_backwards_it-was-a-backwards-memory-of-an-event-in_789511.jpg) > [I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/i-m-mean-and-turf-and-i-m-mean-and-turf-and-i-m-mean-and-turf-and-i-m/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/terry-pratchett-19_backwards_i-m-mean-and-turf-and-i-m-mean-and-turf_1221938.jpg) > [“The nose is also the only organ that can see backwards in time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/the-nose-is-also-the-only-organ-that-can-see-backwards-in-time/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/895/terry-pratchett-19_time_the-nose-is-also-the-only-organ-that-can_1694776.jpg) > [ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/all-things-that-are-are-ours-but-we-must-care-for-if-we-do-not-care/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b4/terry-pratchett-19_azrael_all-things-that-are-are-ours-but-we-must_1714354.jpg) > [When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/when-you-read-i-m-sure-you-don-t-realize-that-your-eyes-are-going/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/819/terry-pratchett-19_backwards_when-you-read-i-m-sure-you-don-t-realize_2378726.jpg) ## Other authors on Backwards ## More by Terry Pratchett > [“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/this-one-s-mental-eccentric-what-s-the-difference-a-bag-of-cash/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/but-i-did-not-return-until-half-past-four-this-morning-and-i/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/the-universe-contains-any-amount-of-horrible-ways-to-be-woken-up-such/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/someone-broke-from-the-scrum-and-punching-and-kicking-staggered/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/it-s-an-interesting-fact-that-fewer-than-17-of-real-cats-end-their/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/you-can-t-trust-folk-songs-they-always-sneak-up-on-you/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/either-dragons-should-exist-completely-or-fail-to-exist-at-all-he/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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, only worse,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/magrat-wondered-what-it-was-like-spending-your-whole-life-doing/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/a-hardback-s-harder-at-christmas-time-because-that-s-a-good-hardback/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/there-were-more-old-people-the-world-was-full-of-them-said-the-wizard/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/hobson-was-big-and-heavyset-but-not-exactly-fat-he-was-probably-what/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/there-is-a-night-that-never-comes-to-an-end-the-clock-of-the-world/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/you-d-like-freedom-truth-and-justice-wouldn-t-you-comrade-sergeant/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [“You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/you-are-not-apprehensive-are-you-i-can-t-detect-no-trace-of-fear-none/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) > [Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/imagination-not-intelligence-made-us-human/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/backwards/terry-pratchett/#itemlist", "name": "8 Backwards Quotes By Terry Pratchett", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. 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