Terry Pratchett Quotes

It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.

Oh man, the car could just burst into flames right now and this would be the way to go, huh guys?

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead.

When I die, I want to be cremated with everybody.

So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. "This is death toast sweety.

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.

Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.