Terry Pratchett Quotes About Death

People’s whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. The process is called “living.”[Also known as:]It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.

You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.

When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

There is nowhere Death will not go, no matter how distant and dangerous. In fact the more dangerous it is, the more likely he is to be there already.

The only important thing in a fight to the death is that the death should not be yours.

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.

No-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away – until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

Man’s not dead while his name is still spoken?

I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE.