“Why us?" he said. "Why is it happening to us?""Everything has to happen to someone," said Ginger.”
More from Terry Pratchett on Life
“You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.”
“... responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged.”
“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”
“He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.”
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
“YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”