Terry Pratchett Quotes

Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

My father passed away at, like, 87.

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Papa died when he was 77.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

My dad told me he wanted me to join in the business, but nothing was firm. He was quite young when he died, so we hadn't talked about it in depth.

I can die peacefully now as both my babies have their own babies.

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.