Terry Pratchett Quotes

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

We all look for lost time.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

There's no sustenance in the past.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?

If you were to ask me would I change anything or could I go back to the past and change anything, I really wouldn't.