3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

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, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would torture your very soul, but that was precisely because they valued souls very highly; evil would always try to steal the universe, but at least it considered the universe worth stealing. But the gray world behind those empty eyes would trample and destroy without even according its victims the dignity of hatred. It wouldn't even notice them.

A flash of inspiration struck him with all the force and brilliance that ideas have when they’re traveling through beer.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.