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50 Quotes About The Beauty Of Being Human From Terry Pratchett

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Holly Riordan
March 1, 2017
“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: Growth, Changes, Leaving
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
— Terry Pratchett, Diggers
Tagged: Open Minds, Open Minded
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Tagged: humans, possibilities, stupidity
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
Tagged: Life, Death, Dying
“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
— Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Tagged: looks, beauty, cats, Frogs
“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Tagged: Time, Drugs, danger
“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
— Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
Tagged: Life, Films, Plot
“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
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
— Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Tagged: Evil, People, Things
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
— Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Tagged: dead, Death, alive
“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
“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Life
“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
“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
“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
— Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
Tagged: Darkness, Light, Flamethrower
“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
“Only in our dreams are we free.”
— Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Tagged: Dreams, Freedom, Sleeping
“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
— Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
Tagged: Eyes, minds, Shut Down
“Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.”
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Tagged: Joy, Fun, Puddle, Sea
“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
“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”
— Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Tagged: Goodness, Pray, prayer
“Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying.”
— Terry Pratchett, Nation
Tagged: Laughter, Crying, Tears
“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
“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
“It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”
— Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Tagged: Past, Future, present
“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”
— Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
Tagged: Wisdom, Intelligence, Illusion
“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Tagged: Nothing, Inactive, Lazy
“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”
— Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Tagged: People, Circumstances, humans
“The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Tagged: Thinking, Thoughts, Mind