Terry Pratchett Quotes

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

The older I get the more laid back I am about whatever happens, happens.

However it is I get on base, or whatever happens, happens.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.