Terry Pratchett Quotes

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

But I don't want to be a pirate!

Don't die like I did.

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain Jim, I cannot sail." "Then down with the galley slaves you go." "But Captain Jim, I cannot row." "Then you must be the pirate's clerk." "But Captain Jim, I cannot work.

It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

People die, but money never does.

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

I'm a big fan of pirates in general.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?

There's a remedy for everything except death.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!

Dying is for fools. I'm proud of what I created. I exposed people to magic. I exposed people to things they would never see in their normal lives.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.