Terry Pratchett Quotes

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

I always know I can die at any moment.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.