“They live their lives as a sort of temporal blur around the point where their body actually is – anticipating the future,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Usually he didn’t bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn’t bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.” — 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
“What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together” — 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
“Which is all rather silly, because any woman setting out to make a living by the sword isn’t about to go around… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. And because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Old terror crouched in the shadows. It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said. That's what being alive is all about.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“She was almost there. She could feel the weight of herself, the ponderousness of her body, the distant memories of the dawn… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Feegles believe that they are dead. This world is so nice, they argue, that they must have been really good in… — 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