3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Them as can do, has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order the time of their birth and the time of their death. Between times, we have a duty.

She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened," said Anathema. "Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972.

We ARE history! Everything we've ever been on the way tobecoming us, we still are. Would you like the rest of the story? I'mmade up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all myancestors. They're in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I'mmade up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think.

I feel like a million dollars don't you? ... Good, Lets go get some.

But what was the point of it all? Sister Agnes used to tell him that the purpose of life was to be all that you could be - with a side helping, of course, of helping others to do the same. And maybe the Long Earth was a place where, as Lobsang might put it, human potentially could be maximally expressed... Was there some sense in which that was what the Long Earth was for? To allow manking to make the most of itself?

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. — Terry Pratchett

Gibt es irgendwas in der Welt, durch das unser Leben lebenswert wird?" fragte Allesweiß bitter. Tod überlegte. KATZEN, sagte er schließlich. JA, KATZEN SIND RECHT NETT.

...and if they couldn't bend their thinking around the world, they bent the world around their thinking.