Terry Pratchett Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House

• 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

  Funny, Life, Intelligent

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Encouraging, Beautiful

• 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

  Life, Death, Nice

  Terry Pratchett (2017). “Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Wisdom Experience, Wisdom And Experience

• It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

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  Funny, Life, Eye

• If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Cat, People

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 158), October 2008.

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Powerful, Fantasy Stories

  "Terry Pratchett Toast" by Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

• I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, ­before the disease mounted its last ­attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern ­version of the "Brompton cocktail" some ­helpful medic could supply. And with ­Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Home, Ipods

  "Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

• 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

  Life, Inspire, Plot

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 1990.

• "And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.

  Terry Pratchett

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Sourcery (Discworld, Book 5)". Book by Terry Pratchett, May 26, 1988.

• Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Exercise, Mind

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

• Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had some spare change he had always made a point of dropping a few coppers into a temple coffer, somewhere, on the principle that a man needed all the friends he could get. But usually he didn't bother the Gods, and he hoped the Gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, God, Atheist

• YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Mean, Want

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

• I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds, if I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Ipods, Choices

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