Terry Pratchett Quotes

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

When our TV screens are filled with heartbreaking images of suffering, we have to dig deep inside ourselves in order to keep going.

I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.'

I've been through a lot; that I have.

I'm not in the business of suffering.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.