110+ Terry Pratchett Quotes On Death, And Death And Writing

Terry Pratchett was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels, which have sold over 85 million copies worldwide. Pratchett received multiple awards, including the Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents in 2001. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Terry Pratchett on death, life and death, writing.

Top 10 Terry Pratchett Quotes

1. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
2. There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
3. Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
4. Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.
5. ...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.
6. I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
7. You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.
8. The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
9. Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.
10. 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 Image Quotes

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Short Quotes

• Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
• The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
• Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.
• One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
• Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
• Given enough coffee I could rule the world
• In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
• Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
• Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.
• "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

Terry Pratchett Quotes About Death

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. — Terry Pratchett

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE. — Terry Pratchett

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. — Terry Pratchett

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... — Terry Pratchett

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. — Terry Pratchett

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. — Terry Pratchett

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

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. — Terry Pratchett

'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.' — Terry Pratchett

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About Writing

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. — Terry Pratchett

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest. — Terry Pratchett

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences. — Terry Pratchett

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — Terry Pratchett

I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy. — Terry Pratchett

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book. — Terry Pratchett

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do. — Terry Pratchett

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails. — Terry Pratchett

There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal. — Terry Pratchett

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About Love

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. — Terry Pratchett

This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here. — Terry Pratchett

And what would humans be without love? RARE, said Death. — Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played. — Terry Pratchett

In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at. — Terry Pratchett

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment. — Terry Pratchett

Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid. — Terry Pratchett

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. — Terry Pratchett

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you. — Terry Pratchett

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel! — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About Life

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

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. — Terry Pratchett

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. — Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. — Terry Pratchett

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway. — Terry Pratchett

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives. — Terry Pratchett

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect — Terry Pratchett

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. — Terry Pratchett

The harder I work, the luckier I become. — Terry Pratchett

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About War

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already. — Terry Pratchett

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free. — Terry Pratchett

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse. — Terry Pratchett

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. — Terry Pratchett

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? — Terry Pratchett

A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had. — Terry Pratchett

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one. — Terry Pratchett

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'. — Terry Pratchett

Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories. — Terry Pratchett

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About Universe

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are. — Terry Pratchett

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior. — Terry Pratchett

Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot. — Terry Pratchett

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. — Terry Pratchett

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness. — Terry Pratchett

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. — Terry Pratchett

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe. — Terry Pratchett

So much universe, and so little time. — Terry Pratchett

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive. — Terry Pratchett

Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About History

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find. — Terry Pratchett

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people. — Terry Pratchett

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school. — Terry Pratchett

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. — Terry Pratchett

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl. — Terry Pratchett

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians — Terry Pratchett

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time. — Terry Pratchett

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel. — Terry Pratchett

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of. — Terry Pratchett

Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About Books

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle! — Terry Pratchett

People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library. — Terry Pratchett

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.' — Terry Pratchett

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be. — Terry Pratchett

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. — Terry Pratchett

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality. — Terry Pratchett

I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I think you can see Terry Pratchett in every book. I like doing it. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. — Terry Pratchett

This book was written using 100% recycled words. — Terry Pratchett

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett

I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About Humorous

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. — Terry Pratchett

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. — Terry Pratchett

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged. — Terry Pratchett

You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About Fantasy

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. — Terry Pratchett

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out. — Terry Pratchett

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove. — Terry Pratchett

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

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic. — Terry Pratchett

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. — Terry Pratchett

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. — Terry Pratchett

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons. — Terry Pratchett

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy. — Terry Pratchett

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About People

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. — Terry Pratchett

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

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. — Terry Pratchett

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. — Terry Pratchett

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. — Terry Pratchett

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done. — Terry Pratchett

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. — Terry Pratchett

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. — Terry Pratchett

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. — Terry Pratchett

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quotes About Mind

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind." — Terry Pratchett

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...] — Terry Pratchett

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad. — Terry Pratchett

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one. — Terry Pratchett

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. — Terry Pratchett

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first. — Terry Pratchett

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. — Terry Pratchett

Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack. — Terry Pratchett

I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind. — Terry Pratchett

I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth? — Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Famous Quotes And Sayings

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. — Terry Pratchett

I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?' — Terry Pratchett

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

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. — Terry Pratchett

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? — Terry Pratchett

It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple. — Terry Pratchett

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green. — Terry Pratchett

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. — Terry Pratchett

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons. — Terry Pratchett

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'. — Terry Pratchett

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. — Terry Pratchett

Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits. — Terry Pratchett

The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world. — Terry Pratchett

His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47. — Terry Pratchett

Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari. — Terry Pratchett

I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course. — Terry Pratchett

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. — Terry Pratchett

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote. — Terry Pratchett

The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame. — Terry Pratchett

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed. — Terry Pratchett

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. — Terry Pratchett

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. — Terry Pratchett

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. — Terry Pratchett

I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him. — Terry Pratchett

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. — Terry Pratchett

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. — Terry Pratchett

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible. — Terry Pratchett

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost. — Terry Pratchett

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. — Terry Pratchett

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. — Terry Pratchett

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead. — Terry Pratchett

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word. — Terry Pratchett

Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce. — Terry Pratchett

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. — Terry Pratchett

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. — Terry Pratchett

I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy. — Terry Pratchett

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way. — Terry Pratchett

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries. — Terry Pratchett

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening. — Terry Pratchett

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. — Terry Pratchett

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. — Terry Pratchett

HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids. — Terry Pratchett

If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won. — Terry Pratchett

The second mouse gets the cheese! — Terry Pratchett

They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately? — Terry Pratchett

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine. — Terry Pratchett

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight. — Terry Pratchett

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. — Terry Pratchett

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. — Terry Pratchett

Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly. — Terry Pratchett

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting. — Terry Pratchett

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone. — Terry Pratchett

Life Lessons by Terry Pratchett

1. Terry Pratchett's work emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself, no matter the situation. He encourages readers to be open-minded and to question the status quo, as well as to embrace the power of laughter and joy in life.
2. Pratchett also stresses the importance of being kind and generous to others, and of understanding and accepting the differences between people.
3. Finally, Pratchett teaches us to never give up on our dreams and to always strive to make the world a better place.