Terry Pratchett Quotes

The world is a very abnormal place.

I suppose there is nothing regular about my life.

There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.

This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.

Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.

It's a crazy world!

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.

Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

Real life seems to have no plots.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.