Terry Pratchett Quotes About Fate

Quotes about: Fate

• 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

  Prayer, Fate, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

  Terry Pratchett

  Queens, Fate, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Nice, Mean

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

• I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Men, Wind

  "A Hat Full of Sky". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2004.

• Fate can be one mean god at times.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Fate

• Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Men, Games

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.16, Random House

• SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Men, Worry

• What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Blow, Knowing

  "Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

• This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Winning, Simple

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)”, p.11, Random House

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