Terry Pratchett Quotes

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Death is a very important part of life.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.