Terry Pratchett Quotes

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

It is either easy or impossible.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

For me, things were either very sullied or very pure, very controlled or very under-controlled.

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.