It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of
Interpretation
People often fear the final outcomes of their lives and the unknowns associated with it.
Terry Pratchett's quote reflects the widespread anxiety surrounding the idea of an 'end game' in life, highlighting how the notion of finality can invoke dread and fear. It suggests that the journey and experiences leading up to this point are overshadowed by concerns about how and when it will all conclude, a common worry that many face as they contemplate their own mortality and the legacy they will leave behind.
In practice
In a speech about life's challenges, this quote captures the common fear of the unknown future.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.
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