Terry Pratchett Quotes

Fear is just part of our DNA and our make-up. By definition, if we've had to be looked after for two years, it means we can't do it on our own and we need other people. That makes trust enormously important and it makes fear massive. Massive fear and trust issues really just defines us. The partner to belief is truth. If we're being fed lies, that's so powerful. And then, when we realize we're being lied to, it's going to make us really angry.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

Nothing scares me but God.

I am only scared of God.

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.