The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7) QUOTES

2 " Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)

4 " Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two thirds of this space, this leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant- assuming that every creature that could be called ‘human’ is allowed in, and the the human race eventually totals a thousand times the numbers of humans alive up until now. This is such a generous amount of space that it suggests that room has also been provided for some alien races or - a happy thought - that pets are allowed. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)

6 " Not craftsmen, my lord" he said. "I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)

8 " Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy state of mind of someone who intended to deal with the problem of the ground when it presented itself. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)

10 " The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically anything, and so, eventually, it does.
People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is amazing.
There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle anywhere. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)

12 " Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it."
"I imagine he did," said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. "And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind?"
"Er..." Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. "Er... roughly speaking, it means, 'We who are about to die don't want to', sir. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)

14 " That's what prayers are... it's frightened people trying to make friends with the bully! "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)

16 " Their eyes said that... they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened to other people. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)

18 " Too many people, when listing all the perils to be found in the search for lost treasure or ancient wisdom, had forgotten to put at the top of the list "the man who arrived just before you". "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)

20 " There's always hope."
"So? There's always taxes, too. It doesn't make any difference. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)