Quotes by Terry Pratchett

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in Gods waiting room.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I didnt go to university. Didnt even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Ive always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

If it wasnt for the fun and money, I really dont know why Id bother.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

By the time youve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. Its called living.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. Im angry about bankers. About the government.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimers you are an old fart. Thats how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

In my heart, Im just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. Im not a rich man.

“...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what youre attempting cant be done.”

“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”

“Im trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun. -I should leave it for a while, its too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”