Terry Pratchett Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

  Terry Pratchett

  Past, Turns, Wells

• 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

• 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

  Couple, Past, Government

• 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.

• Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

  Terry Pratchett

  Past, Understanding, Erratic

• At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Past, Color

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.24, Harper Collins

• Man just went past with a cat on his head.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Past, Men

• I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

  Terry Pratchett

  Past, Giving, May

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.175, Random House

• You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Past, Thinking, Wish

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.235, Random House

• There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Past, Discworld

• If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Past, Government

  "Terry Pratchett: 'Fantasy is uni-age'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

• We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Art, Successful

• There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out there is bad - but there has been a lot of bad fantasy written by people who read a lot of fantasy and so all they keep doing is recycling it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Past, People

  Source: bobneilson.org

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