Terry Pratchett Quotes

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

For whatever you live is life.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

In order to die, you must first have lived.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

Aging is a synonym for living.

It's important you don't lose touch with reality because, well, reality's the only thing you've got, really.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.

I fear not living fully.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.