Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

Freedom without limits is just a word.

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.

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

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

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

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

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

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

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.

I've 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.

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

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

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

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.