Terry Pratchett Quotes

It's my life and my death.

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.

Remember, life is for living and learning. So listen to your life and the lessons it offers. What choices must you make this day to help you move forward? Make your list of the things you can do right now to create what you want and begin to do the work. You can say yes to happiness, wholeness, and prosperity. You can live fully and creatively. You can claim your power to choose. Why not claim it now?

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.