Terry Pratchett Quotes

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

I searched all areas of knowledge, and not only did I fail to find anything, but I was convinced that all those who had explored as I did had also come up with nothing. Not only had they found nothing, but they had clearly acknowledged the same thing that had brought me to despair: the only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?

"Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?" The Imass shrugged before replying. "I think of futility, Adjunct." "Do all Imass think about futility?" "No. Few think at all." "Why is that?" The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. "Because, Adjunct, it is futile."

Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

What's the bleedin' point?