Terry Pratchett Quotes

Society has a fascination with death.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

Death is not my best subject.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Death is a fearful thing.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.

I envy the dead.