50 Quotes About The Beauty Of Being Human From Terry Pratchett

“It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“If you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

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

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com