Terry Pratchett Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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

  Change, Travel, Life Changing

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

• 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

  Funny, Life, Eye

• Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Lying, Stupid

• They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Doubt, Rooms

• I hate cats." Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. "I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hate, Cat, Eye

• Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.47, Random House

• Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Whole Life, Dies

• The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Eye, Heart

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.73, Random House

• The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Mind, Trouble

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.177, Random House

• Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the-ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ocean, Eye, Reality

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.312, Random House

• And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past. This time they had earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around and yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it just might work.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Mean, Cat

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

• I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!

  Terry Pratchett

  Wall, Eye, Men

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.136, Random House

• Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,' said Otto. 'And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say "Yonder is . . . zer castle" a volf would be bound to howl mournfully.' He sighed. 'In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Home, Eye

• 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".

• He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Eye, Wizards

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.229, Random House

• You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Dragons, Heartless

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

• Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.142, Random House

• Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Eye, Ideas

• They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.

  Terry Pratchett

  Father, Eye, Long Ago

• Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Eye, Angel

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.150, Random House

• And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Glasses, Broken

  "The Truth". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2000.

• Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Arrows, Mail

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.284, Random House

• When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Realizing, Backwards

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