Terry Pratchett Quotes About God

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’re a god, you don’t have to have reasons.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it’s the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals.

There’s a streak of madness in everyone who spends quality time with gods.

The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn’t what was originally intended.

The trouble with being a god is that you’ve got no one to pray to.

The gods. Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.

The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that’s where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won’t do if they don’t know about it. This explains why it is important to shoot missionaries on sight.

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

On the disc, the Gods are not so much worshipped as blamed.

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.