Terry Pratchett Quotes

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Why bad things happen to good people

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

Justice is the soul of the universe.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy, and I don't even have a worst enemy.