Rincewind Death Quotes

#1. We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.
It fooled Rincewind.

Terry Pratchett

#2. You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Alastair Reynolds

#3. Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Victor Hugo

#4. The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

Frederick Locker-Lampson

#5. There are eight levels of charity ... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

Maimonides

#6. Rincewind looked up at the tall black figure that had appeared a few feet away. It was, of course, Death. He turned his glowing eyesockets toward Rincewind and said, in a voice like the collapse of undersea chasms, GOOD AFTERNOON.

Terry Pratchett

#7. It could go on for years and years,
And has, for centuries,
For being human holds a special grief
Of privacy within the universe
That yearns and waits to be retouched
By someone who can take away
The memory of death.

Herbert Mason

#8. I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found ...

Rebecca Solnit

#10. the window, turned back again into the room,

Wilkie Collins