Terry Pratchett Quotes

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I've criticized myself over the years.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

I have no desire to look at myself.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.

It's hard listening to myself.

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.