Terry Pratchett Quotes

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.

Let's be honest: material comes and goes.

Nothing lasts forever in my profession.

Life is like this: things come and go.

It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure.

The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

I do have in the back of my head that you never know how long it lasts.

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.