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Terry Pratchett Quotes

Total quotes: 41
“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you”
— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
Tagged: coming of age, Philosophy
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
— Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man(Discworld)
Tagged: Poetic, Sadness, Conclusion, Ideas
“It was amazing how many people spent their whole lives in places where they never intended to stay.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
Tagged: Leaving, nothing is permanent
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Tagged: Letting Go, Life Lessons, Holding On
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
— Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Tagged: Death, After Death, Losing A Loved One, Loss, Grief
“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”
— Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Tagged: People, Circumstances, humans
“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
— Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
Tagged: Darkness, Light, Flamethrower
“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
— Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
Tagged: Eyes, minds, Shut Down
“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
— Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Tagged: admiration, Attraction, admiring someone, captivated
“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”
— Terry Pratchett, Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett
Tagged: remember, Crowd, Social, rise, Fall, Crowd Mentality, show, People, civilization
“William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic (Discworld)
Tagged: Structure
“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown (Tiffany Aching)
Tagged: Education, Sex, College
“The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.”
— Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
Tagged: Enemy, stupidity, Men, Women
“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”
— Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
Tagged: practice, Life, Living
“People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.”
— Terry Pratchett, Making Money
Tagged: Changes, Change, normal
“After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.”
— Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Tagged: Advice, talking, help
“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”
— Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Tagged: Destiny, Control, Fate
“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Truth
Tagged: Glass, Diamonds, Worth
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Tagged: Stories, Life, live life
“If you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.”
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Tagged: dead, alive, Living
“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”
— Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Tagged: Thief, Money, Government
“Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.”
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Tagged: Parents, Parenting, Children
“If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.”
— Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Tagged: power of pussy, Women, Knowledge
“If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
Tagged: Work Hard, laziness, Dreams
“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it.”
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Tagged: Stories, Life, Story
“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”
— Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
Tagged: Wisdom, Intelligence, Illusion
“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”
— Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
Tagged: Law, Criminals, Government
“We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?”
— Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
Tagged: Sleepwalking, Awake, Asleep
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Tagged: travel, Explore, Adventure, Move On, Break Free From Comfort, Self-improvement
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
— Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Tagged: Evil, People, Things
“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”
— Terry Pratchett, Nation
Tagged: Life, tricks, One Chance
“Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.”
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Tagged: human, humanity, Destruction
“Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!”
— Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
Tagged: Brains, Self-Love, Self-Hate
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Tiffany Aching)
Tagged: Sky, Change, Coming Back, Deep Thoughts
“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”
— Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Tagged: prayer, Goodness, God
“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Tagged: Time, Drugs, danger
“Only in our dreams are we free.”
— Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Tagged: Dreams, Freedom, Sleeping
“Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying.”
— Terry Pratchett, Nation
Tagged: Laughter, Crying, Tears
“If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.”
— Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
Tagged: Failure, Success, Prizes
“He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Tagged: Cooking, Sex, Imagination
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