“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same… — 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
People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before dying. The process is called "Living — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It sucks all the life right out of you, civilisation." "It killed Old Vincent the Ripper," said Boy Willie. "He choked to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That’s what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there’s food to be caught and babies to be born and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard… — 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
“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
“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — 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
“You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn’t it? Sorry.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. — 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
Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Life in this world,” he said, “is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
“A camel in distress isn’t a shy creature. It doesn’t hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn’t phone up… — 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
