Terry Pratchett Quotes

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I overdramatize.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

What's interesting about emotions is that the more you try to control them or to bottle them up, the stronger they get. So, the more I try to stop being sad, the sadder I'm going to get.

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

To me this is not yelling. I am not yelling. I'm just passionate about my opinions and I want to tell you all of them before you start talking again.

I feel everything very strongly, and that is why I am an actress. I have made such clear connections between some of my chronic boo-boos in my body and emotion. It is kind of fascinating. I really feel like as a society, we need tap into that and embrace that more and more instead of wondering why we are sick.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.