Terry Pratchett Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• 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

  Death, Wisdom, Atheist

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 19, 2016

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Thinking, Leaving

  "Good Omens". Book by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, 1990.

• 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

  Long Ago, Pirate, Dying

  "The Colour of Magic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1983.

• I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after league of us, flaming swords, all that, well, what I'm trying to say is who has time to go round picking people out and popping them up in the air to sneer at the people dying of radiation sickness on the parched and burning earth below them? If that's your idea of a morally acceptable time, I might add.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Mean, Ideas

• People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, People, Dying

  "The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel".

• Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.

  Terry Pratchett

  Worst Enemy, Cities, Dying

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

• They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dying, Done, World

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

• Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nurse, Tea, Dying

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

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