Death Quote by Terry Pratchett — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.”

“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.”

“Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!”

“If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.”

“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the”

“We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.”

“Though he plunged into work as another man might have plunged into dissipation, to drown the thought of her, you could see that he had no longer any interest in it; he no longer loved it. He attacked it with a fury that had more hate in it than love.”

“It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.”

“Death must exist for life to have meaning.”

“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”

“I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.”