Terry Pratchett Alive Quotations

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

It's hard to be famous and alive.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.