Quote

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

Terry Pratchett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Terence David John Terry Pratchett
Terence David John Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett
Fantasy
Inside
Struggle
Persons
Shopkeepers
Person
Madman
Every
Madmen
Struggling
Sane

More quotes by Terry Pratchett

Image
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.
Terry Pratchett
Image
She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief that is what they are for.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.
Terry Pratchett
Image
I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.
Terry Pratchett
Image
I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.
Terry Pratchett
Image
I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Terry Pratchett
Image
All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
Terry Pratchett
Image
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.
Terry Pratchett
Image
One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.
Terry Pratchett
Image
So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.
Terry Pratchett
Image
You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The best research you can do is to talk to people.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
Terry Pratchett