Quotes by Terry Pratchett

“There is always time for another last minute”

“Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldnt live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.”

“The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.”

“I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN.”

“Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.”

“Its wrong to think that the past is something thats just gone. Its still there. Its just that youve gone past. If you drive through a town, its still there in the rear-view mirror. Time is a road, but it doesnt roll up behind you. Things arent over just because they are past.”

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”

“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”

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

“At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we dont know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.”

“Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!”

“Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough.”

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means theyre getting worried that they wont like the truth.”

“He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.”

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”

“It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.”

“WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?”

“People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because theyre standing on one and being soaked by the other. They dont look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isnt a time. Its a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.”