“He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him.”

“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”

“The feeling he'd had, that he was about to get himself killed, swelled into an overwhelming premonition of doom. Ganner's knees went weak, and a very large part of him wanted to bolt down the corridor and get away-but though he hadn't been much of a hero, the one virtue he'd never had to fake was courage.”

“Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives. Why do you think Christ was killed? They killed him to prove that he wasn’t a god. But in killing him, they immortalized the perishable and transformed man into a god.”

“If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.”

“Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.”

“Why would God decide to come into the world, that He created Himself, just to be killed by His own creations?”

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

“Do you think it would be quite so easy to kill them now that your weapon has been destroyed?' he sneered. 'No,' she said, frowning at him, 'Obviously not.”

“Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.”