The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Stand before your god, bow before your king, and kneel before your man. Recipe for a happy life, that is,” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn’t really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Or, to put it another way, the existence of a badly put-together watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“years ago, when it underwent a rapid increase to the current level of 21%. The amount of oxygen in today’s atmosphere is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Child, you’ve come here to learn what’s true and what’s not, but there’s little I can teach you that you don’t already… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Tak did not expect the stone to have life, but when it did, he smiled upon it, saying "All Things Strive". Time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Tiffany jumped when she saw a balloon sail up above the trees, catch the wind, and swoop away, but it turned out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward? How could they live with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image