Terry Pratchett

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #age

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#sanity #light

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#intelligence #mob-rule #mobs #people #intelligence

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor

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

#boredom #cynism #ennui #humor #death

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#luck

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

— Terry Pratchett

#men

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

— Terry Pratchett

#immortality #remembrance #death

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#belief

Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor