Terry Pratchett Quotes

It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The human brain is an amazing thing. It starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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

In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this.

In ancient times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that continues to this day.

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

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?

Fantasy goes one stage beyond realism; requiring complete intellectual surrender, it asks more of the reader, and at its best may offer more . . . Fantasy is the metaphor through which we discover ourselves.

Terry Pratchett Quotes part 2

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done.

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

So much universe, and so little time.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the journey.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

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.

It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: “Kings. What a good idea.”

Real stupidity can beat artificial intelligence.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

They didn’t invent thunderstorms for people to go indoors. Nature didn’t design rain as an invalidating factor.

They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

Goblins are friendly, chatty, and outgoing, but that’s just because nobody likes them.

Boffo, adj. Not good in the least.

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Actually, the only thing about snakes that Edie didn’t like was that they always wanted to crawl into your sleeping bag when you weren’t looking.

Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away.

And cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodskull.

Ask yourself whether in your wildest dreams you ever scheduled into your life a slot for acid indigestion, guilts, and hasty exits from countries about to fall apart.

Ankh-Morpork… sprang up from the fertile flood plains of the Ankh River when it was decided that a town that was not built on black basalt, had no seers, no dwarfs, no trolls, no flaming gas-filled mountains, no slavering monsters in nearby forests and also no wizards, would make a nice change.

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.

The inanimates kept moving in a slight breeze, a random twinkle of light from the corner of the eye.

I am most happy among the apples, the salt crystals, and the small, silent birds.

It is said that there’s only a step from sleeping to waking. To this I would add that there’s only a breath between being awake and falling asleep, and that while in that breath, we dwell in the place we come from and that is where I have been living. # TerryPratchettQuotes