Terry Pratchett Quotes

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

I am I plus my circumstances.

It's my life and my death.

Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.