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Top 500 Terry Pratchett Quotes (2025 Update)

Terry Pratchett Quote: “So much universe, and so little time.”

1. “So much universe, and so little time.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Live Life Quotes, Universe Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Witty Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”

2. “If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Effort Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”

3. “Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Witty Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”

4. “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Life Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Different Quotes, Witty Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

5. “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Learning Quotes, Experience Quotes, Clever Quotes, Witty Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

6. “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Funny Friday Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”

7. “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Witty Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “When in doubt, choose to live.”

8. “When in doubt, choose to live.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Choices Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

9. “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

— Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quote: “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

10. “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Mind Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Featured in: Change Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Travel Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

12. “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Creativity Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Imagination Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “And what would humans be without love? RARE, said Death.”

13. “And what would humans be without love? RARE, said Death.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Different Quotes, Witty Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Given enough coffee I could rule the world.”

14. “Given enough coffee I could rule the world.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Coffee Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

15. “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Influence Quotes, Clever Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”

16. “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Witty Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”

17. “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Funny Wednesday Quotes, Funny Tuesday Quotes

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

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

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

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

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

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Witty Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility.”

20. “Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility.”

— Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

21. “Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Imagination Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

22. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Creativity Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Firsts Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

23. “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Real Quotes, Funny Work Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

24. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Morality Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Quotes About People, Respect Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”

25. “Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”

— Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quote: “There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.”

26. “There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Witty Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”

27. “Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.”

28. “The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Hilarious Quotes, Funny Work Quotes, Funny Friday Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?”

29. “You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Silly Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Quotes About Ideas

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.”

30. “Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Silly Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Funny Thursday Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Things just happen. What the hell.”

31. “Things just happen. What the hell.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Funny Friday Quotes, Funny Thursday Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

32. “It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Imagination Quotes, Magic Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Everything is a test.”

33. “Everything is a test.”

— Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.”

34. “Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Destiny Quotes, Fate Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “The harder I work, the luckier I become.”

35. “The harder I work, the luckier I become.”

— Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quote: “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

36. “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Liars Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.”

37. “Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.”

— Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.”

38. “Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Funny Wednesday Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.”

39. “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Truth Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

40. “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Journey Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.”

41. “Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.”

— Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

42. “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Science Quotes, Funny Wednesday Quotes, Funny Monday Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”

43. “Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Humor Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”

44. “It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Sadness Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”

45. “A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Creative Quotes, Couple Quotes, Funny Yearbook Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”

46. “Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Hilarious Quotes, Rights Quotes, Funny Friday Quotes, Coffee Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “Of course I’m sane, when trees start talking to me, I don’t talk back.”

47. “Of course I’m sane, when trees start talking to me, I don’t talk back.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Funny Wednesday Quotes, Funny Monday Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”

48. “The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Silly Quotes

Terry Pratchett Quote: “People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.”

49. “People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Quotes About Stories

Terry Pratchett Quote: “This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”

50. “This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”

— Terry Pratchett

Featured in: Boldness Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Decision-Making Quotes

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