Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
Interpretation
Time, like a drug, can be overwhelming and harmful if consumed excessively.
This quote by Terry Pratchett suggests that time, when viewed as a resource, can have both positive and negative effects on our lives. Just as a drug can be beneficial in moderation but dangerous in excess, time can provide opportunities for growth, reflection, and enjoyment, but too much unstructured time can lead to a negative impact on our mental health and overall well-being.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about time management during a motivational seminar.
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.
I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
We die a little every day and by degrees weβre reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
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