Reaper Man Quotes

“Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Bill Door had carefully ensured a local reputation as the worst bowman in the entire history of toxophily; it had never occurred to anyone that putting arrows through the hats of bystanders behind him must logically take a lot more skill than merely sending them through a quite large target a mere fifty yards away. It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“They covered every flat surface in a state of total democracy”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“You were a wizard. What caused all that?”

“I think it was probably an inexplicable phenomenon,” said Windle. “There’s a lot of them about, for some reason. I wish I knew why.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“I suppose there’s not some kind of magic you don’t know about?”

“If there is, we don’t know about it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“It’s called a shovel,” said the Senior Wrangler. “I’ve seen the gardeners use them. You stick the sharp end in the ground. Then it gets a bit technical.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“it’s just that life is a habit that’s hard to break”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born , it wasn’t long before you found you’d arrived with your return ticket already punched.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Bill Puerta cometió el error que habían cometido millones de personas con los niños pequeños, en circunstancias semejantes: trató de razonar.
MIRA, le dijo, SI DE VERDAD FUERA UN ESQUELETO, NIÑA PEQUEÑA, ESTOY SEGURO DE QUE ESTOS CABALLEROS TENDRÍAN ALGO QUE DECIR AL RESPECTO.
La chiquilla miró a los ancianos sentados al otro lado del banco.
- No, porque ellos son ya casi queletos también –replicó-. Me parece que no quieren ver a otro.
Él se rindió.
HE DE ADMITIR QUE EN ESO NO TE FALTA RAZÓN.
- ¿Por qué no se te caen los trozos?
NO SÉ. NUNCA ME HA PASADO.
- Yo he visto queletos de pájaros y otras cosas, y a todos se les caen los trozos.
A LO MEJOR ES PORQUE ELLOS SON LOS QUE ALGO FUE, MIENTRAS QUE ESTO ES LO QUE YO SOY.”
― Terry Pratchett, El segador

“Plop.
Fue un sonido tan suave como la primera gota de lluvia sobre un siglo de polvo.”
― Terry Pratchett, El segador

“La mujer se sobresaltó.
- ¿Cómo ha sabido mi nombre? Ah. Seguramente lo ha visto escrito, ¿no?
GRABADO
- ¿En uno de esos relojes de arena?
SÍ.
- ¿Todo el mundo tiene uno?
SÍ.
- Así que usted sabe cuánto me queda…
SÍ.
- Debe de sentirse muy extraño sabiendo… las cosas que sabe…
NO ME PREGUNTE NADA.
- Eso no es justo, no me parece bien. Si supiéramos cuándo vamos a morir, los seres humanos viviríamos mejor la vida.
SI LOS SERES HUMANOS SUPIERAN CUÁNDO VAN A MORIR, SEGURAMENTE NO VIVIRÍAN.
- Ah, qué metafórico. ¿Y usted qué sabe, Bill Puerta?
TODO.”
― Terry Pratchett, El segador

“The Archchancellor raised his eyebrows, and then turned to the rest of the wizards.
"[i]Are[/i] we mean?" he said”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?

How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. Amazing. To feel you were a tiny living thing, sandwiched between two cliffs of darkness. How could they stand to be alive?”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“The future flowed into the past, and there was a lot more past than there was future, but he was struck by the fact that what it flowed through all the tie was now.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“The future flowed into the past, and there was a lot more past than there was future, but he was struck by the fact that what it flowed through all the time was now.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Ridcully”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would live better lives.'
IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIVE AT ALL.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“OK, Reg and me will help you up, come on-'
'Me? But I can't stand heights!'
'I thought you could turn into a bat?'
'Yeah, but a very nervous one!”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Occasionally people would climb the mountain and add a stone or two to the cairn at the top, if only to prove that there is nothing really damn stupid that humans won’t do.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“See! I have time. At last, I have time.’
Albert backed away nervously.
‘And now that you have it, what are you going to do with it?’He said
Death mounted his horse.
‘I am going to spend it”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Щось прекрасне, якщо брати у віддаленій перспективі, мало статися невдовзі. Якщо брати коротку чи середню перспективу, мало статися щось жахливе.Це різниця між тим, щоб бачити прекрасну нову зірку у нічному небі й дійсно опинитися поруч із надновою. Це різниця між красою ранкової роси на павутинні й тим, щоб дійсно стати мухою.”
― Террі Пратчетт, Reaper Man

“The wizards said that the University stood on magical ground and was therefore exempt from taxation and anyway you couldn’t put a tax on knowledge. The Patrician said you could. It was two hundred dollars per capita; if per capita was a problem, de-capita could be arranged.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“YOU FEAR TO DIE? “It’s not that I don’t want . . . I mean, I’ve always . . . it’s just that life is a habit that’s hard to break .”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Whichever way around it is, Time is something that living creatures possess. Death galloped down through towering black clouds. And now he had Time, too. The time of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Wizards don’t believe in gods in the same way that most people don’t find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they’re there, they know they’re there for a purpose, they’d probably agree that they have a place in a well-organized universe, but they wouldn’t see the point of believing, of going around saying, “O great table, without whom we are as naught.” Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“It began to dawn on Windle that the human body is not run by the brain, despite the brain’s opinion on the matter. In fact it’s run by dozens of complex automatic systems, all whirring and clicking away with the kind of precision that isn’t noticed until it breaks down.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Mrs. Evadne Cake was a medium, verging on small.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“My father always made me promise never to help the Revenoo. Even just thinking about the Revenoo, he said, made him want to go and have a lie down. He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“No CROWN, said Bill Door, looking directly into the smoke. No CROWN. ONLY THE HARVEST.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man